At 03:56 PM 1/14/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>Card's not right about everything (he overstates the
>importance of the China situation, imo, and
>understates the extent to which the Administration
>seems to have been purposely putting the North Koreans
>into a corner to force them to give up their nuclear
>weapons program), but it's a pretty good analysis on
>the whole. I'm impressed.
>
>http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/osc2.html
Gautam:
These kinds of solutions to the DPRK crisis (and their cousing solutions to
solving the Israel/Palestine crisis) are always intriguing, but seem to
suffer from the serious flaw of being detatched from reality. After all,
do we have any reason to believe that Kim Jong Il does not also realize
that greater openness would spell death for his regime? Or to put it
another way, what evidence at all do we have that the DPRK wouldn't require
us to make concessions for putting a McDonald's in Pyongyang, rather than
giving us concessions for the same?
JDG
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