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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's a good question. My sense is that his administration has been paralyzed because different factions have prevented any one policy from going forward. Also, there don't seem to be any good military options.
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I was watching this panel last night on C-Span put together by Foreign Policy magazine on the Korean situation. They were all saying that South Korea and the United States now have two totally different strategic interests in North Korea. South Korea does not war under any circumstances. War is their worst nightmare. The United States does not want North Korea to give its Nuclear Technology to anyone else or develop a reliable system to hit the US. If the US finds the North Koreans trying to give nuclear weapons to Al Queda it will certainly mean war, but that is not what the South Koreans want.
The US wants the North Korean Regime to collapse. South Korea fears that because they will have to pay for North Korea like West Germany had to pay for East Germany. They will also have to deal with millions of regugees. China does not want a collapse because that would mean a lot of refugees and a Korean peninsual controlled by South Korea, which they see as a staunch US alley.
Japan wants North Korea to stop building nuclear weapons but isn't all that excited about a united Korea, considering Korean antipathy to Japan.
