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Seeing as NK just pulled out of the 6 party tralks and claims it is no longer bound by their agreements, it may be time to slap them back on the terror list. SK is joining the PSI, a good move. It may also be time to impose some real sanctions on them, something along the lines of what Bush did to Banco Delta a few years back. Freeze all their assets abroad, sanction all banks and financial institutions dealing with NK. Intercept all NK ships. The means to put them in a financial stranglehold are there for Obama. China needs to be confronted with a choice as well, because as far as I can see, China is enabling their misbehavior more than anything.

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"Act" how? What in the world can be done about the DPRK? You can't attack it without Seoul being "collateral damage".

I see far too much faith in the American ability to being benefit to this situation and far too little faith in East Asia being able to sort out their own mess. We've had a good long time of American leadership on this issue and it has only been getting worse.

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According to one view, North Korea sees South Korea as a rebel province with an illegitimate government whose existence is guaranteed by the US. China sees Taiwan as a rebel province with an illegitimate government whose existence is guaranteed by the US. If that analysis is correct, and some members high in the government of South Korea think it is, then it begins to explain why China acts as it does in relation to North Korea.

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Not erase, but decrease. Significantly decrease. The theme of ideas must now adapt to a world where America plays much less of a role in policing. And if (actually, when) the worst case comes to pass, and the US dollar is removed as reserve currency, the US will be faced with some extremely difficult choices. That could happen in a year or two, or possibly as late as a couple decades. It will happen.

The DPRK is only an American problem as long as America is deeply involved in the region. There is a reason that Argentina is not sitting at the table. Argentina could have been, but they blew up their economy.

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Even if America could afford it, and further if America could find broad international support and assistance (meaning more than the UK, Japan and maybe Canada if Harper is still around) I still then do not trust the United States, after the last two third world boondoggles, to handle any 'action' appropriately. I write that totally without bias of anti-Americanism or the like.

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South Korea set to curtail North arms trade

SEOUL (Reuters) � South Korea is expected to announce as early as Wednesday plans to curtail the North's suspected trade in weapons of mass destruction, further raising tensions with Pyongyang after the North vowed to quit nuclear disarmament talks...

In a move bound to ratchet up tensions, South Korea is poised to reveal it will soon join U.S.-led interception of shipments suspected of carrying parts or equipment for weapons of mass destruction. Pyongyang has said such an action would be considered a declaration of war.

The plan, called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and joined by 94 countries, would let South Korea stop and board North Korean ships sailing in its territorial waters when suspected of carrying arms or other illicit materials."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/wl_nm/us_korea_north

I'm having a hard time believing South Korea would actually stop a ship at sea to search it for 'arms or other illicit materials'.