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Originally Posted by Vance

That's not a very prudent statement, there are only 8 countries in the world with nuclear weapons, and we're either allies or neutral with them (except NK of course). And nukes haven't been around for very long.
Yes the U.S surely has an amazing relationship with China. You're neutral with some of those countries probably for the very reason Madmartagen is getting at...Because they have nukes, which deems a forceful action totally void because of potential repricusions.

W-wh-aa? What is this reffering to?

Trust me, if you knew about NK/US relations beginning after the war, you'd know that they've done enough bullying for the both of us.
When I say they're being bullied I mean, on the international stage....and I'm sorry if, as an american, you were offended by that and felt obliged to target that irrelevant point - But its just not what I was getting at. I'm not laying blame here. I'm just looking through the eyes of a madman, a.k.a Kim Jong Il, and arguing why he made the decision to press on with his nuclear program. My point still stands.

I stand by my belief that we would be on the defensive in any future war between the two Koreas. Unless something absolutely terrible happened that we had no choice but to stop them, there'd be no way that we would invade.
Okay, so what happened in Iraq that was absolutely terrible, and prompted a full-force invasion, that isn't going on in North Korea? Look at it from the North Koreans point of view to see what we're seeing.