--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read it and its not much different than what you > suggested 3 months ago. > It appears to me that no one but the US is > interested in a multinational > approach. I recall you saying that the US would > handle it by putting > pressure on China. If, as expected by many, the > reprocessing plant opens > with the start of the Iraq war, time will be getting > short soon. When will > the pressure start to work? > > If the reprocessing plant doesn't start, then the > clock doesn't start > ticking. But, I really am not sanguine about that. > > Dan M.
I'm not sure. At this point the North Koreans have two cards left to play. They can test missiles over Japan (again) and they can open the reprocessing plant. If it's true that everyone in the region has told them that's a red line that they absolutely, positively, cannot cross under any circumstances (the main new thing I was referring to) then the Bush strategy makes sense, to me, because the testing of the missile is likely to work to our benefit, not theirs. So far, the reprocessing has not started. Given that it looks like action is beginning in the Gulf as we write this, North Korea has to realize that their window of maximum opportunity is about to slam shut - so if they haven't begun reprocessing within the next few weeks, then we know that they were bluffing. The fact that they haven't begun already is a strong signal in that direction, actually. Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
