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...this Korea Herald story chronicled a fierce debate among Seoul lawmakers about whether SoKo should support the sanctions or if the action would provoke Kim Jong Il. Because now CNN says they are even reportedly working on a second weapon...
...that's unlikely to change. They fear that a collapse of the regime would send millions of refugees across their borders, and probably cause a heavily armed and unpredictable regime to lash out militarily. Fear of provoking military escalation from the North Korean side may even make Beijing and Seoul think twice about U.S. calls for the interdiction of ships sailing into and out of North Korean ports. And nuclear weapons only increases those perils...
...That the Beijing and Seoul summits happened at all was a surprise. A Japanese leader had not visited Beijing in five years and Seoul in more than a year, in part due to former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 Japanese war criminals along with 2.5 million war dead. The diplomatic deep freeze was worsened by rising nationalism in both South Korea and China, which culminated with violent anti-Japanese demonstrations throughout China in the spring of 2005. When Koizumi, in his last major act as Prime Minister, went...
...they may be right. As angry and concerned as they may be about the test, Beijing and Seoul will likely remain a lot more worried about the collapse of the Pyongyang regime and chaos on their borders than about the murky state of the North's weapons programs. "The challenge for the administration is, can they get China to do enough?" asks Green. "The Chinese don?t want to go so far they create a whole another nightmare for themselves with North Korea falling apart." Pike thinks China won't take the risk. "That's why we're not going...
...only make matters worse. The North could retaliate, he says, by "stirring up trouble in the Sea of Japan or sending patrols into the DMZ... If things really got out of hand, you'd have increased military alerts and clashes on the Korean peninsula that would cause jitters in Seoul. And there's always a danger that these things will get pretty hairy." To China, Japan and South Korea, if not the U.S. itself, that possibility, no matter how remote, is even more scary than an underground nuclear test...