90% chance of another war?

[vinnieponte]

Ok does this bother anyone else? Maybe its pre-emptive but if we we're to launch an attack, I know for a fact that us here in the States would all be in deep shit. N Korea isn't some little sand dune we can crush for the fun of it. This country has the man power and allies( russia) to severly hurt us on our own land. Should we just back off of it, or is bush going to pull well a "bush"?

North Korea Indicates Six-Party Talks Over

1 hour, 13 minutes ago Top Stories - AP



UNITED NATIONS - North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador indicated Friday that six-nation talks on the country's nuclear program were over and said the real issue is whether the United States intends to attack the reclusive communist nation.

Han Song Ryol made clear that his country's announcement Thursday that it is a nuclear power and would indefinitely suspend its participation in six-party negotiations was the result of Pyongyang's belief that the United States is bent on invading North Korea to topple Kim Jong II's authoritarian regime.


But Han went further in a brief interview Friday with Associated Press Television News when asked what it would take to get North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.


"Six party talks is old story. No more," the North Korean envoy replied in English.


Han was quoted in a South Korean newspaper on Friday as demanding bilateral talks with the United States to defuse the tension created by Thursday's announcement.


"If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us," he was quoted as telling South Korea (news - web sites)'s Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview Thursday.


But Han appeared to backtrack on the demand in Friday's APTN interview when he was asked whether the United States needs to have bilateral talks with North Korea.


"No, we do not ask for bilateral talks," Han replied. "The formality of the dialogue is not essential one. The essential one is the U.S. policy — whether it try to attack us or not. That is the problem, but not the bilateral or multilateral one. We do not care about the formality."


The North Korean diplomat was also very pessimistic when asked whether his government would engage in talks if the United States showed a more positive attitude.


"We do not expect any further positive measures from the U.S. side," Han told APTN. "We have seen already, fully, and we made already decision."