Lets play chicken with North Korea
Loved ones this is a small planet we all live on...not that big really....so our communication with other countries is most important as all our neighbors are so close...communication from a position of trust can solve our differences better than force of arms....we have learned that haven't we ? Please consider these following statements...first from North Korea and second from the U.S. Sec. of State Condolizza Rice...
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First North Korea..."We have taken a serious measure by increasing nuclear arms arsenal in preparation for any invasion by enemies," the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station said in a commentary, according to a report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.The commentary said ongoing joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises were "preparation for war against us."
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Second Secretary Rice...QUESTION: On North Korea. One of the things that's been striking about the last few years is that it hasn't always seemed that the bottom line for the United States is the same as the other parties in the six-party talks. After your trip to China, what do you think that the Chinese value more: stability on the Korean Peninsula or a non-nuclear peninsula?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, my discussion with the Chinese was to suggest to them that those two are indivisible.

QUESTION: And what was their reaction to that?

SECRETARY RICE: I think they understand that a nuclear North Korea on the Korean Peninsula has unpredictable -- potentially unpredictable effects that will not make the Korean Peninsula very stable, will not make the region very stable. And so I didn't find much pushback on that.

QUESTION: Because the sense is that one of the reasons why it would be difficult to, you know, if say the six-party process doesn't continue to work and you wanted to try to move this to a higher level, maybe bring it to the Security Council, it would be difficult to get China's cooperation on that because they have a fear that if you start pushing too hard on the North Korean Government it could potentially collapse, you've got millions of refugees in the Korean border, and that's the thing that's holding them back.

SECRETARY RICE: Well, eventually if we have to cross the bridge where we come to something other than six-party talks, people will have to take a look at the upsides and downsides of the choices between them -- before them. We're not there yet because we're spending as much time and energy and effort right now as possible in making the six-party talks work. We still think it is a really great framework in which to do this because it brings different parties with different incentives and different points of leverage to bear on the problem. So it's a really good design. So, you know, at that point, I suppose people would have to make their choices, but I do not think that it is -- I'm not -- you're saying this -- but stability on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean nuclear weapon, I think, are not compatible.

QUESTION: And you think the Chinese agree with that?

SECRETARY RICE: I think people understand that.
_____________________________________________________________________________________Loved ones after reading the two perspectives do you think our present leaders will find a peaceful solution ? I petition for the unconditional love, the White Light of the Holy Spirit...to enclose both groups of leaders here and there....that together we all can share this planet.... our home in a loving fashion.
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 4:26 PM