They know the US will talk tough, but won't actually do much about it, they don't have any oil you see. I see Team America has resorted to rating me down anonymously, never thought freedom of speech would be so dangerous to the American way of life. Thanks for the comment Tom.

1. You say they are testing nuclear weapons. 2. They say they are not testing nuclear weapons. 3. Bush has the habit of making up false "enemies" to make himself look good fighting those terrible "devils". 4. Go on saying North Korea is testing nuclear weapons- or Bush will put you in prison and torture you until you say it.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong il is simply a publicity seeking mad man. Historically, however, he has been quite successful in obtaining concessions of one sort or another by sabre-rattling. He has not been in the news since he test fired a number of missles a few months ago. The testing of a nuclear device will place him back in the news and he will get considerable attention.

Your question is incorrect. The UN intervention is the correct statement. Though the US does have a large part in the UN. By the way, they have already done testing on Monday 10/9/06

Its a challenge and korea believes the united states should not be the governing power to tell korea, what to do. It will not last. sanctions are now being planned to forbid korean shipments of many goods necessary for everyday life functions in korea. If this is not effective, there are many other steps, not only the united states can take, but also other world countries, against korea.

The issue of North Korea testing nuclear weapons is for several reasons: 1. It is for Kim Jong Il to secure his regime both internally and externally. 2. North Korea and the Korean peninsula, in general, is a strategic geopolitical hotbed for East/Northeast Asia and Kim Jong Il is VERY aware of this. Therefore, a nuclear weapon (doesn't matter what size or shape or contents - plutonium or uranium) exists as a 'card' for him. 3. US, during the Eisenhower and Truman administrations, has threatened to obliterate North Korea with a nuclear weapon - this doesn't seem so strange as Truman did bomb both Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 to end the Japanese Imperical movement. 4. One may think China is North KOrea's friend. Yes, it is 'technically' North Korea's strongest ally, with Russia following the list; however, China is not trusted AT ALL by both South and North Korea. -Look at Korea and Chinese history from pre-modern to current - Chinese dynasties have been shaped - destroyed through severe internal factions from heightened burden of war with North Korea. -Yes, North Korea is not a "new" story - there was an era of Disunification on the Korean Peninsula (division between North and South and later with North and 2 South Korean regimes) for hundreds of years following a thousand year imperical state of North Korea - consider Buyeo, Koguryo, etc. 5. In the 1980's, North Korea's Kim Il Sung first initiated the Nuclear Program because of following reasons: -The Chinese government began moving a lot of their ground forces to Northeast China/Southeast Manchuria near the North Korean border. These movements of the Chinese military made Kim Il Sung very uncomfortable and since by the late 80's Russia was becoming remarkably weak, Kim Il Sung realised that soon enough he may have NO allies to help him out. -Kim Il Sung also saw what the Chinese Nuclear tests did for the Chinese communist regime and the Chinese government. -Kim Jong Il sees what it has resulted in - the SECURITY of the Chinese Communist regime coupled with Free Market Expansion (working towards Laissez-faire style economy - although still in the works) and wants North Korea to be in a similar way. Think about it, who doesn't want their country to prosper and secure their regime at the same time? Kim Jong Il is NOT stupid! 6. North Korea is tantamount to the existence of the Korean Peninsula as an independent entity. -Don't get me WRONG, I really don't like that ridiculous, short, ugly, dictator/evil Kim Jong Il; however, all Koreans recognize the importance of North Korea in the existence of the independent Korean Peninsula, which has the second longest history behind China in Asia. I would get into more detail, but I must stop now. My hands are getting tired and I can get into a WHOLE NEW essay about what will happen if US withdraws troops from South Korea and the role of China in North/South Korean relations. Another historical point of view....history does repeat itself, unfortunately, but I wish it didn't for Korea this time around. :)

Because the dictator doesn't care. i know that sounds immature and childish but he's ready to go to war, inf act he threatens the U.S. and other countries, tempting them to invade. He's not afraid of nuclear weapons, we are. And so he also knows we'll be wary to enter a war with North Korea in hopes he never attacks us.

It is not likely to lead to a US intervention. We've already had a ground war in Korea so we know what that would be like. And after a war in Iraq longer than WWII and still going on it would be almost impossible to gather support for a war in Korea. And we would be unable to use nuclear weapons be cause of the proximity of Japan, China, and South Korea. Once the military option is removed we are pretty much left with trying put pressuere on North Korea from the UN and from China. Which is what we are doing. As for developing Nuclear weapons it makes that country safe from invasion as the invading country cannot be sure that a country on the verge of being conquered would not go nuclear. I don't doubt that North Korea's leader would be nuttey enough to do just that.