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Originally posted by jaguar
You telling me a line of claymores are gonna stop the north Koreans?

I don't think claymores would be prohibited by the treaty, actually. But there's more than claymores on that border, and the idea isn't to STOP them, it's to slow them down long enough for your army to stop them.

[B}
You gonna tell me that North Korea is really gonna attack, knowing that they need US grain/aid? Come on, its not gonna happen, they know they woudl not win, it owudl achieve nothing from Kim Il Jong (or whatever his name is i forget, its late and i'm tired)
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Rationally, no. But rationally they wouldn't have fired a missile over Japan a year or so ago either. Remember the picture of the earth at night that was popular a few months ago? North Korea stands out quite well -- the whole country is dark except for Pyongyang. They've got to be really damn poor, which could make them really desparate too.

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The cold, ideological war is over, the evil godless commie scum aren't gonna be taking over anyhtign in the near future, world economies and trade agreements have given the western wrold even biggest sticks to threaten these countries with, and they don't cost lives, unlike nukes...or landmines. [/b]

Please. World economies and trade agreements are fine, but as a threat they pale compared to nukes and mines. And while I know the Cold War is over, and you know the Cold War is over, does Kim Jong Il know the Cold War is over?