Wow. Apply your superlative of choice to use with ‘ironic’, now!

PS All- I’ve fixed the links in this post. Apologies for the 404.

I believe the danger not to be of a direct threat, I doubt North Korea will be hostile to neighbouring counties who they rely on for aid, the problem is that they may sell their nuclear knowledge to the highest bid through their criminal network were they have many contacts throughout the criminal and terrorist underworld.

Kim Jong il is nothing more than a criminal gangster on the world stage who is into drugs, fake brand cigarettes, (I am certain that these cigarettes are being sold on the streets of Belfast and other cities in the U.K.), weapons being sold to Iran, and lots more but what has been most significant to the U.S. has been the North Korean attempt to undermine the U.S. economy with the counterfeit supper Dollar this trail led to Belfast through a notorious Irish Republican Sean Garland who had been tracked from North Korea via Russia to the U.K., he escaped from British jurisdiction while on bail and is now a fugitive in the Republic of Ireland who don’t have extradition treaty with the U.S.

The U.S. and Japan need to congregate together all the diplomatic assistance they can, they need to get Russia, South Korea, and China behind them to support an ousting of Kim Jong il but I doubt this idea will get their full support because these countries support a continuance of the Kim Jong il regime because they fear a exodus on mass to their borders which would cause chaos in their eyes if he was overthrown. I believe this to be the only option to bring a lasting solution to this dilemma of a nuclear threat from North Korea. I doubt that sanctions will affect Kim Jong il, it will be the suffering people of North Korea that would suffer under any sanctions.