I think that N. Korea would do something like this to bring in more money to produce more warheads to blow off and to join allies with terriost networks out there. You look at how all the terriost get there guns and stuff in the first place. It is all from other comunist countries out there. I beleive we have to go in before anythign can get sold so we are not firing after things have been sold and ready to launch.

I said that day when N. Korea tested various missles that it was proof they do what the N. Koreans claim and there were many buyers present. N. Koreas assets have been frozen in the bank of manco by us.Their counterfit buisness is floundering and they are no longer getting an acceptable exchange rate if any at all. They had outstanding payments that they wanted to collect and also took future orders.Japan needs to place an embargo on all ships either leaving thru the Sea of Japan or stop them in international waters.

North Korea still acts offended by Bush's 'axis of evil' speech and by some US spy vessel they captured some 30+ years ago. If thats why they want nukes, then they are fooling the international community. Nukes are an act of civil defiance. So what if the UN is moderated by the U.S.? I dont ever picture Iran or North Korea showing proof of uniting the world towards global peace! They wont even allow UN inspectors! All i see are hate rallies, US flag burning and missle and tank parades from them.

Do we sell weapons of mass destruction to other countries?
Does Russia sell weapons of mass destruction to other countries?
Is that acceptable?
Then why would it not be acceptable for someone (anyone) else to sell weapons of mass destruction to other countries?
Ah, that good old double standard!
Long may she wave.

Zach, you are dead on correct that there is a double standard. I don;t think we should let that cloud the issue though that we are at risk from N. Korea's nuclear weapon program. My bigger concern is that our military options are very limited due to our investment of military resources in Iraq. We are stretched precariously thin on the military front. Either we as Americans find the political will to accept the reality of our foreign policies. That those policies are going to demand a draft to assure a military capable of backing those policies, or quit hiring leaders who pick fights with every country that doesn't follow dutifully behind our lead.

We are no more at risk from N.K.s nuclear weapons program than they or anyone else is from ours. Mind you, the use of enough "conventional" weaponry, as we have provided Israel and other countries can, if used disproportionately, as can be seen in Lebanon (and in the past Viet Nam), is just as letahl and devastating as the use of nuclear weapons.
The world itself can not be expected to readjust it's own defensive mechanizations because we (the US) has opted, sheerly by choice alone to deploy the bulk of our military defenses in any particular arena of combat even if that arena had been (but was not!) one of imperative to our immediate self defense, ie Afghanistan and Iraq.
Of course we're stretched. And of course it was done needlessly so by leadership who, being myopic in advancing an imperialistic agenda, failed to ensure that our nation had the resources to protect itself from any real and immediate threat.
This being so, we have no right to make edicts to other countries to tailor their defenses or weapon sales to fit our defensive capabilites.
We would never have honored similar requests from other nations. So why would they and why should they?
Looked upon as an analogy of a school yard bully who foolishly took on one too many of his class mates during recess, he has no leg to stand on when he starts making demands that no more than kids should enter the fray, because he isn't able to handle anymore takers.
We set the pace for weaponry and we lead the world in weapons sales.
Our being strecthed militarily is no more the world's problem than their being utterly and consistently outgunned has ever been ours.

Gander, with all due respect; if we are the beacon and standard bearer for "uniting the world towards global peace" then why do we seem to have an armed conflict somewhere on this planet without fail every aproximately 20 years?
And in the peaceful lulls between these wars, we supply others with the arms, the funding and the provocation to create others?
I believe we have a much grander view of ourselves that what global history might portend.
We may want to bring that in line with the realities, if we ever want to break this cycle of wars our country of a short 250 years is caught up in and perhaps give other empires of the past a run for their money as far as a comparable longevity might factor in.

I worry more about the Iranian bomb aka the Islamofascist Bomb in the making. North Korea exchanges threats for bread while the nutcases in Tehran really want us all dead and jidad dogma say they'll do it.

zach - the US has an armed conflict problem? I think not. Perhaps you are missing who is threatening whom with nuclear annihilation. Hint: NK and Iran. Parroting the left's Useful Idiot ant-American ideology has it's logical limitations.

At present North Korea is not a nuclear power. Admission into the club requires that you successfully detonate a nuclear device, which is one of the most difficult technical achievements of all time. Remember, the Russians admittedly were befuddled by this and if not for the Rosenbergs would have taken them many more years.
The time to really panic is the moment our monitoring stations detect a nuclear signature, but until then all of this is mostly conjecture.

"Do we sell weapons of mass destruction to other countries?"
Absolutely. Where do you think Saddam
got the gas he used on the kurds.
The united states gave it to him to use against iran. I would say that poison gas is a wmd. Also when they searched iraq the only wmd they found
were what we had given him. So in short, yes we do.

Ah, Patty, be nice.
There's plenty of parroting going on, that's for sure. But I mostly hear it along party lines.
For six years now I've heard one parrot after another defend the most incompetent administration and policy that I've ever seen in my 50+ years.....and I've seen a bunch from both sides of the aisle.
Talk about logical limitations? From invading Iraq beause 15 of the 19 people who brought us 9/11 were Saudis to the 4 day official response to Katrina, this president has shown us nothing but limitations in logic, in intelligence and in basic class.
But the parrots keep exhalting his every blunder.
Keep believing in whatever enemy du jour they throw out to you and they'll have you exactly where they want ya. Willing to give up your freedom out of fear.
As Ike put it..."beware the military industrial complex."
Look around.
It already has us by the short and curly.

zach is spot on. Wanna talk about parrots? You have to look no further than your President as he stands before the nation parroting the lies sold by his oil baron puppet masters so they can further line their pockets on the backs of the US military. Or the "nuclear terrorism experts" whose job it is to convince you that there really are monsters in the woods so you won't venture outside the village and stay willing to live by their Puritan laws. You see only hate rallies, flag burning, and tank and missle parades streamed through your television because THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE.

Meanwhile, the sheep are led to pasture because they've been made to fear what lies away from the herd. They give up their freedom out of fear, repeating the word "terrorist" like some sort of mantra.

Parrots indeed.

Its real obvious that these Neo-Nuke Nations are Hell-bent on serveing up In-accuracies..along the Secret Services highway..I can only see the Underground TEST being the Garbage Disposal for the eventual Technology..even NOW the India-Pakistan TESTS seems to have some DISPOSAL in its ocurrance..that heavy movie of the Mountain-side being "shook" seems just like "stupidity"..the usual "suspects" seems to POP-up these days..Nuclear TEST..or..Garbage Disposal..??

How do we know that N. Korea has not already sold these weapons to Iraq? Maybe the Bush Administration is not wrong about the weapons over there. Our troops are still there and we question why.