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Shah, Outstanding Post, You do your homework....I get more out of your writings than here in teh MSM...Stay well......I agree China and Russia will be a real test for him. I will not state my feelings on this issue......
Despite a lukewarm approach of non-binding declaration by the UN, North Korea has announced to withdraw from the Six Party Talk.
You have got the situation on the Korean peninsula fundamentally wrong. You characterize the situation as a matter of one side against the other. That is you see the US, Japan, and S Korea pitted against Russia, China, and N Korea. The six-party talks which were partly successful in defusing the tensions on the Korean peninsula (remember the nuclear test explosion of 2006) should not be abandoned to a new Cold War configuration as you have suggested in your article. The latest missile testing by the N Koreans is a small problem compared to the bigger issue of the need to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Until this recent flareup which was not kept in secrecy by the N Koreans, relations were already mending if you recall the willingness of the N Koreans to invite the IAEA into their country to help dismantle and monitor the plutonium reprocessing center at Yongbyon in 2007. Even the arch-antagonist of the N Koreans, former anti-UN ambassador John Bolton admitted on Fox News recently that the best way to proceed is to get the Chinese government to lean hard on the N Koreans to return to the six-party talks. So Mr Alexander you are even to the right of the right wing neo-con John Bolton. Shame.
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