see what i think is that usa is nothing short of hypocritical
it uses the UN defence council to its own means...
example
india/pakistan test bombs and sanctions are placed by UN. usa/india sign big business deal - sanctions lifted. pakistan allows usa to use its soil for afganistan and iraq - sanctions lifted. usa refuses to supply pakistan with f-16's china agrees to supply pakistan with fighters. f-16's a few months later deleivered to pakistan.
the same will happen with this. russia and china who have very good diplomatic links wiht n korea will simply continue as normal and usa will realise its on the end of a financial disadvantage - esp when it comes to china and will take steps to improve relations.
with china on its doorstep - n korea is under no false illusions that it is s-asia's big boy. its not. the fact that usa has continued such a one sided support program of japan and s-korea its pushed n korea to facilitate its own defences.
The US are often badmouthed, particularly at the moment, as people see their foreign policy as purely looking after their own interests. Well they do, but in their case it is in their interests to stop other nations becoming powerful via the proliferation of weapons, which in fact serves the purposes of everyone on the planet who do not want to see a World War again.
We can't pretend to live in a perfect world where it is ok for everyone to have massive weapons, and I for one would rather they stayed in the hands of the americans, who by the way are our ALLIES, than have them in the hands of a communist nutcase who has openly stated that he would sell the technology to the highest bidder.
The Americans would PREFER Korea to be a united country without Nuclear weapons as well which is why they wanted Kim to stop trying to build them. Now that he has got them, as the leaders of the Western World, they can't just sit back and let him continue to build an Arsenal and then watch as he marches into S Korea as no-one tries to stop him because they are under threat of Nuclear Attack.
As their nearest neighbours, the Chinese should be the ones taking the responsibility for dealing with N Korea but unfortunately they haven't done so, so the UN needs to step in, and its the US who make things happen there.
Can we put sanctions on a nation where millions are sarving? how many of the people died from lack of food because he was using all the money to build nuclear weapons?
now mani I don't want to pick holes in your argument but the f16 deal was quashed because the Pakistani's wanted the updated missile codes which the US won't give them because they are not part of NATO, so they had to look elsewhere hence China stepping in.
China is trying to become a trading nation and as such has lifted a lot of restrictions that it imposed for a lot of years, for example you no longer need to use a chinese bank to do business, you no longer need a member of the ruling party as a trading partner and you can vist the factories that are producing your goods.
The main thing to remember is you have a dictator that is starving his people, and wants ultimate power in a region that has been stable since the 50s. If you think that because he can tell the USA to F off by getting nukes that he's a good old boy ,you really need to reexamine your way of determining your affiliations.
