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What is going on with N. Korea?? Are they really taunting the Western powers to go to war?? Are they just "rattling sabres"??

I read that they have missle capabilities of 4000 miles & planned to aim toward Hawaii on July 4th. (Can they reach it?) WTH is going on?? What have you heard??

also they state this is a backlash of what happened in iraq. alot of good we did by fighting that unnecessary war in iraq (where ZERO weapons of mass destruction were found) - we managed to rile up nations with more power and that are crazy. i don't blame bush for north korea being nuts but i do blame him for this being an issue now. this is exactly why we can't go around taking things into our own hands w/out the approvement of the united nations. we abused our power. our war was with the terrorists.

read this :

from: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_koreas_nuclear

Gen. Walter Sharp, who commands the 28,500 U.S. troops positioned in South Korea, said the North could employ roadside bombs and other guerrilla tactics if fighting breaks out again on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas technically remain at war because their three-year conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953.

North Korea is believed to have begun boosting its urban, nighttime and special operation capabilities in the wake of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, South Korea's Defense Ministry said. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, North Korea claimed it would be the next target.

With 1.2 million troops, North Korea's army is one of the world's largest. Some 180,000 are special operation forces.

Last Wednesday, a North Korean-flagged vessel left the port of Nampo and was being trailed by a U.S. destroyer, a U.S. official said. It's the first ship being monitored under the U.N. sanctions imposed earlier this month following North Korea's defiant underground nuclear test in May. The new resolution seeks to strengthen efforts to stop North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs and selling its technology.

The Kang Nam, accused of transporting illicit goods in the past, is believed to be carrying banned small arms to Myanmar, a South Korean intelligence official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information.

However, analysts say a high-seas interception — a move North Korea has said it would consider an act of war — is unlikely.

What makes it even more frightening is that they flat out don't care that they are violating sanctions. But really, have they ever? We should have taken care of him a long time ago, at the first hint he was never going to comply.

Do the majority of N. Koreans believe they are in the right, or are they just as afraid of their leader as we are? I haven't read that answer anywhere.

basically this is just another reason why i loathe the bush administration. they left the world in a mess in every which way. the economic disaster should have been forseen. bush who was so gung ho on stopping rogue leaders KNEW about north korea. now, b/c of defiance w/the united nations when it came to a resolution with iraq, we have now sparked further paranoia with north korea who definitely has weapons of mass destruction. sheesh.

www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.kaplan.html

Why did George W. Bush--his foreign policy avowedly devoted to stopping "rogue regimes" from acquiring weapons of mass destruction--allow one of the world's most dangerous regimes to acquire the makings of the deadliest WMDs? Given the current mayhem and bloodshed in Iraq, it's hard to imagine a decision more ill-conceived than invading that country unilaterally without a plan for the "post-war" era. But the Bush administration's inept diplomacy toward North Korea might well have graver consequences. President Bush made the case for war in Iraq on the premise that Saddam Hussein might soon have nuclear weapons--which turned out not to be true. Kim Jong-il may have nuclear weapons now; he certainly has enough plutonium to build some, and the reactors to breed more.

archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/9/132140.shtml

This is a timeline of North Korea's march toward nukes. Bush didn't do everything right, but he didn't do everything wrong. Same with Clinton. North Korea did not recently become a problem. They signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985 (likely laughing all the way home). They've been defying U.N. sanctions for years.

also let it be known that although i'm casting blame to a degree i wish i had some sort idea to resolve this. i don't. i am too much of a hothead to ever *ever* be president. the only thing i could think of is to tell them that if they want to do their testing and come any where near anything considered territory of the US, it will instantly be considered a threat, declaration of war and we will retaliate with the most harsh force possible. i would also advise the UN of this and let North Korea know things can be peaceful IF they choose it. of course that is not the answer but i do hope we figure something out.