Re: What WMDs?

begin  Rob Kaper's  quote:
| On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:00:19PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
| > Moreover, sanctions against N. Korea would be quite difficult to
| > enforce, as N. Korea is militarily quite stronger than Iraq,
| > particularly its Navy, which amongst other things has a
| > significant set of submarines and, as a blockade would be an
| > unprovoked act of war, N. Korea would be fully justified under
| > international law in sinking any ships enforcing a blockade.
|
| Technically, the US is already at war with North Korea. The 1953
| cease-fire was never turned into a peace treaty.

technically, the united nations is the other party in the dispute; the 
u.s. was merely enforcing the u.n. mandate. there was never a state 
of war between the u.s. and north korea other than that specified by 
the u.n.

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