The Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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A quick note on the North Korean interception of an American spy plane over the waters near the Korean Peninsula.

Lest there be any doubt, this is an extremely serious development. It's also a fairly predictable development. You may have been noticing out of the corner of your eye those almost daily warnings out of North Korea: there's going to be a great disaster, we'll repel a US attack, the US will be devoured by flames, the world will be trampled under by a race of gigantic goblins, etc.
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Force is next resort, Bush tells Pyongyang

President George Bush gave notice yesterday that the US will resort to military force against North Korea if diplomacy fails to stop it building a substantial nuclear arsenal.

He told US newspapers that his administration would maintain its efforts to prevent North Korea building a nuclear arsenal, adding: "If they don't work diplomatically, they'll have to work militarily."
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Shrub seems to think that issuing ultimatums is diplomacy. He seems to think that not talking to the North Koreans is diplomacy. I would feel a lot better if Shrub would actually begin some diplomacy. Any diplomacy.