What will China do about N. Korean nuke?
This test has humiliated China, which has recently spent a good deal of diplomatic effort to dissuade North Korea from going forward with the test. Will they now consider pulling the plug on fuel and food shipments? This Newsweek article starts to ask some of the questions.
Of course, I wonder what the Bush administration will do. But I don't think they're in as much of a position to do anything as China. And of course one wonders about the American political fallout. Obviously, this is a huge failure for Bush's policies. But of course they'll try to spin it as a reason to stay in power.
Just a thought: is there a possibility that N. Korea is bluffing about this? Maybe they just set off a huge amount of conventional explosives underground. But people seem to think this is the real thing.
Of course, I wonder what the Bush administration will do. But I don't think they're in as much of a position to do anything as China. And of course one wonders about the American political fallout. Obviously, this is a huge failure for Bush's policies. But of course they'll try to spin it as a reason to stay in power.
Just a thought: is there a possibility that N. Korea is bluffing about this? Maybe they just set off a huge amount of conventional explosives underground. But people seem to think this is the real thing.
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