On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:42:03 GMT, "Crash Lander" wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
They have suffered 11
straight years of food shortages, and are able to feed themselves only
because of outside aid --

Haven't really kept up on this as I know I should, but to me, the foreign
aid should be the first thing to stop!

Well, you're posting in the wrong language, then. China is still NK's primary
supporter. The recent UN resolution basically eliminates luxury items.

And...nuclear weapons aside...all local nations want to maintain the status quo.
No one wants the repression in North Korea to end. South Korea doesn't want to
have to take care 23 million starving North Koreans nor erect a modern
infrastructure from scratch, nor does China, nor Japan, nor even the US.

You can take a look at:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../dprk-dark.htm

....and see what the challenge would be. The country that invades NK is stuck
with moving them out of the 19th Century. The UN will wring its hands, it'll
eventually figure out a way to bribe Kim to supress the nukes, but you won't
find any serious effort to oust Kim and the Party.

Ron Wanttaja