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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   Trump sez NK leadership won't be around much longer if they continue   
   to think a certain way --- namely, they need to help their country to   
   achieve a capability to deploy nukes as a deterrent in order to defend   
   itself against US threats/attacks.   
      
   What NK FM Ri has said is to serve notice that any form of limited   
   strikes will be vigorously and preemptively defended.   
      
   Maybe NK is telling China that she cannot weasel her way out of her   
   mutual defense treaty with North Korea --- by saying, Oh, but you shot   
   at Trump's planes/ships first and they aren't even over NK's airspace   
   or they are in international waters, etc.   
      
   As I have said before, the only game in town for NK to do now is to   
   keep jacking up the costs for the US if it thinks that it can pull a   
   stunt like what the West and Israel did to Syria and Iraq --- recall   
   the bombings of the Osiraq reactor in the 1980s called the Operation   
   Opera or better known as the Operation Babylon and the bombings of   
   Syria's reactor in the 2000s under the name of Operation Orchard.   
      
   In this case, NK is telling China's leadership they would have to   
   explain to their people why they would let hundreds thousands if not   
   millions of Koreans die if they chickened out of honoring the mutual   
   defense treaty their predecessors have signed with their North Korean   
   counterparts.   
      
   The Chinese have a saying about not beating a drowning dog.  That   
   would mean you have a duty to help a drowning dog.  The Korean people   
   from the North or the South do not deserve to die just because they   
   are not as strong or being beaten down by a mighty one!   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
   MILITARY   
   3 hours ago   
   US says it's not pushing for regime change in North Korea   
   By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/25/us-says-its-not-pushing-for   
   regime-change-in-north-korea.html   
      
   . . .   
      
   Trump's Saturday tweet said: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North   
   Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they   
   won't be around much longer!" Trump also used "rocket man" for Kim in   
   his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week.   
      
   . . .   
      
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