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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Sep 22 2004, 09:19 PM
Hold on, partner ... you try to bring Canada into this discussion and tell me I'm being silly?
I don't think the confrontation with the Danes over icebergs is likely to escalate into the sort of conflict that a confrontation between the two Koreas would. An unstable government in Seoul in possession of nuclear weapons is not a happy prospect ... and an arms race in Asia is a hell of a lot more likely than one in the arctic.
Let's assume that everything goes the way almost everyone would like, and the two Koreas unite. A UNIFIED nuclear Korea would make a lot of people nervous regardless of which form of government succeeds the two existing ones. You think the Chinese, the Japanese, or even the Australians want that?
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I'm not saying it wouldn't make some countries nervous but seeing as South Korea has been our ally for well over 50 years now, and honestly I haven't seen much in the way of them becoming unstable as much as other allies, I wouldn't have much of a problem with them arming themselves much as The North has done.
We can't stay over there forever. Besides, as far as China being nervous, one of their neighbors already HAS nukes.