N Korea = full of

...excuses.

"Because of the intervention of foreign powers, the implementation of what is agreed upon between the two Koreas is being suspended, and the inter-Korean relationship is being edged out by foreign powers," the North's Korean Central News Agency quoted Kwon as saying in Seoul.

The North -- which staged a short-range missile test last week -- also took the South to task for its joint military exercises with the US, and urged it to repeal its tough National Security Law and reject outside interference.

Looking back at these past few decades, all North Korea seems to have wanted is for the United States to clear the peninsula completely. Thrice, I believe, did North Korea attempt to have peace talks with South Korea; thrice did they fail. But why? Why did these talks fail? Well. It was always on the part of North Korea to rough things up a bit.

I think that the North Korean government just wants to purge the peninsula of any US influence, to reach their ultimate goal of reunification. But their means of reunification is for the North to take over the South by force.

I think it'll be a long while before North Korea will ever become cooperative with South Korea and the United States, let alone the rest of the world.

U.S. Says Macau to Release $25M in Frozen N. Korean Funds

Nuclear North Korea + Money = bad idea


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How wise is it, really, to trust the North Koreans? Yes, I realize that nobody has much of a choice and that we need to cooperate with the upper half of the Korean peninsula...but still. How can we even know for sure that they'd really stop production and what not? North Korea may be poor, and the people starving, dying and disappearing...but that doesn't mean that the government is stupid. In fact, the fact that this nation still exists goes to show just how smart the government officials are. They've managed to keep a dying nation alive for far longer than it should have been. We have a hard time finding any real figures and stats about this place, because it is so closed and so private. How can we rest assured that they would stop nuclear production? Even if they stop the physical production, we don't know that they would go and improve their technology on paper.

Then again, what can we do? Not much. I say we gather all the North Korean officials and send them off in a rocket up onto Mars. Maybe they'll figure out a way for human life to subsist on this planet, a mystery yet to be solved, simply as a result of their belief that they are superior than all others. And I'm half kidding. I suppose that the only way we can really deal with this insolent group is to just go about doing what we're doing--though we may trip, fall, and totally destroy ourselves in the process of groping around in the dark, there's actually a chance that we might find the light switch and be able to deal with this matter in a better informed and well guided way.

Until then, I say we put Kim Jong Il on a one way rocket to Mars.