North Korea is a slave nation.

It has al the worst aspects of the worst moments of the USSR; extremes of poverty, gulags, and a population yearning to get the hell out but unable to do so.

Like the USSR they are wringing from their slave population a small pinnacle of high tech capability in nuclear arms. With Bush's hawk administration there is a clear danger that the two syndromes (both psycho) will collide and produce a w second front, and Bush can go down in history as the man who started the second world war.

It is a distinct risk, but I believe at this time it is one of relatively low probability.

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