The Plan Post-Kim: No Plan

Kim has been a highly talented master of elusive game. Perhaps by "no showing", he is trying to test the world's reaction to what would be like in a hermit kingdom without his presence.
Smooth succession or tragic power struggle? Does it really matter to an already failed state? After all, only the abject poor will continue to suffer.

Bush put them on a "terror list" for a reason..They are terrorizing South Korea and the U.S....He wouldnt go to the table to talk to North Korea because he knows that they wont abide by any agreements...As soon as they pretended to agree Dem/Libs spouted off "see Obama was going to do this all along, all we had to do was talk to the North and they'd agree to shut down their nuke plants."... Well now what?...We talked ,we negotiated, we gave them their incentives and now they are back to re-assembling their plant that was supposed to be torn down per the agreement..Looks like negotiating w/ terrorists doesnt REALLY payoff does it? They will continue to use our money to build or help other rogue nations build nuke plants for "electricity". Their 'Dear leader" will eventually pass and McCain will have to set them straight by NOT negotiating anymore unless their side of the agreements are meet and kept....McCain/Palin 08'

President Truman made critical mistake on Korean penninsula denying General McCarther's stratagies
to block Chinese influence during Korean war resulting much more casualties since. There should not be
same mistake again this time.

Truman made enough mistakes on Korean penninsula opposing MaCather's stratagy to block the Chinese
influense to the area during Korean War. Free world needs new strong stratagies not to make the same
mistake this time.

The USA has no business over there. Let the Chinese worry about it.

You would have thought the USA would have learned its lesson from the Regean-Bush years when we had no plan for the disbanding of the USSR. The Republican powers then, as now, had no clue to how the world works. And the USA and everyone is much less safe: because of their actions- and inactions.

One of the stupidest of recent stupid moves by Bush & Co was to fail to remove N. Korea from state-sponsored terrorist listing. They reconstituted their nuclear enrichment program. That is worse than no policy -- it is, again, the triumph of ideology over common sense.

The people of South Korea seem blithely unconcerned about the situation in North Korea. I've been living here for 12 years and it's obvious that most citizens are convinced that nothing bad is going to come from the North. South Korean businesspeople are overseeing factories of North Korean laborers every day in Gaesong, North Korea. Economic unification is a must before political unification. The East/West German experience was a valuable lesson.

As usual, Geo. Bush is gabling with our future. The trouble is that he is unaware of the consequences!

Whoever succeeds Kim will either follow his footsteps to exhibit the irrelevant tough stance, or be a more receptive person to the West and the world at large. The successor needs not be a single ruler, it could also be a collective leadership.

Whatever it may be, the world ought to treat North Korea with respect (which will certainly be reciprocated), and maintain the cordial talks that have proved to be rather fruitful so far. Abrasive confrontation and abusive denunciation do not work, they can only bring lethal conflicts. (Tan Boon Tee)

Regardless if they have a "deliverable" nuclear bomb they could still sell one to terrorists. While George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain side track America in this great Neo-Con SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq they have undermined America's Military Deterrent with states like North Korea! Beijing May not have as great a hold. Remember Mussolini's invasion of Greece came as a surprise to Hitler. What about are troops in South Korea who act as a "trip wire"? Should North Korea attack we would then have to use "tactical nuclear weapons"!
Why is North Korea building a missle system that is aimed at us if she has been domesticated?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643074/

Bush has undermined our Military Deterence. Dictatorships do not fear being overthrown and replaced by Democracies! No they simply fear being overthrown! When we over threw Iraq then dismanted their military and we changed our "DEFINITION OF SUCCESS" to the completion of a NEO CON WILD EYED SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT we lost our Military Deterence with other rogue regimes as we have to finish a 100 year war in Iraq first before we can move on to the other bad boys!
If we are going to prevent Rogue nations from havig nukes then, WHY are we building a nuclear shield in eastern Europe that is aimed at rogue states? The presupposition of such a shield which is not meant against Russia is that we will alllow rogue nations to have nukes! This is why Bush has undermned our Military Deterence!
http://middle-class-populist.com/2008/05/26/bush%E2%80%99s-iraq-war-is-destroying-america%E2%80%99s-military-deterrence/

Regardless if they have a "deliverable" nuclear bomb they could still sell one to terrorists. While George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain side track America in this great Neo-Con SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq they have undermined America's Military Deterrent with states like North Korea! Beijing May not have as great a hold. Remember Mussolini's invasion of Greece came as a surprise to Hitler. What will happen to our troops in South Korea who serve as a "Trip Wire"? Rather than loose them we would then have to commit to "Tactical Nuclear Weapons". That is the purpose of a "trip wire". Why is North Korea building a new Missle Site when they were supposed to now have been tamed?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643074/

Bush has destroyed our military deterent? How? Dictators don't fear being overthrown and replaced by Democracies! No they simily fear being overthrown - period! By redefining "victory" in Iraq from removing Sadam to now having to engage in a 100 year SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIEMENT, why should dictators now fear us as we are tied down?
http://middle-class-populist.com/2008/05/26/bush%E2%80%99s-iraq-war-is-destroying-america%E2%80%99s-military-deterrence/