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You mentioned earlier you were against "extreme sanctions" .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=50760252&txt2find=sanctions .. we agree, and looks like maybe Obama is onside.

A couple on the question of sanctions. North Korea has been under sanctions since 1999, i read
somewhere .. hmm, maybe longer .. had forgotten South Korean opposition to them back there ..

Detroit News Wire Services
June 8, 1998

Washington - Just last month the Clinton administration described the Korean Peninsula as "perhaps the
most dangerous place on Earth." Now it may represent one of the few spots of hope around the globe.

South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who arrives at the White House for a state visit Tuesday, will
reiterate his recent call for an end to US economic sanctions against North Korea, which South
Korea technically has been at war with for more than four decades. The United States fought on
the side of South Korea and lost 55,000 Americans. Another 102,000 were injured. .. more inside ..
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/202/42442.html

Here is a PDF which discusses the effectiveness of sanctions ..
and by country vs multinational. Just skimmed, so far. .. revisit ..
http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/06100Franks.pdf

Anyway the latest and 'greatest' it looks like since 2006 and 2009, they have not been able to have been implemented fully ..

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A report from a U.N. panel that monitors compliance with sanctions
on North Korea showed more than 100 countries may not be doing enough to implement the punitive steps.

The latest report to the U.N. Security Council from the Panel of Experts on North Korea, obtained by
Reuters, said 111 of the 192 U.N. member states -- mostly developing nations -- had not submitted
reports on their implementation of the council's two sanctions resolutions against North Korea.

Those resolutions, adopted in 2006 and 2009..... .. continued .. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100612/ts_nm/us_korea_north_un ..

Sanctions against North Korea have no doubt adversely affected the ordinary
people. Have they produced positive results on the nuclear question .. maybe ..

As a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program, .. http://en.wikipedia.org
wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction .. the Six-party talks ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-party_talks .. were established to find a peaceful solution to the growing unrest between
the two Korean governments, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the United States.

On July 17, 2007, United Nations inspectors verified the shutdown of five
North Korean nuclear facilities, according to the February 2007 agreement.

On October 4, 2007, South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
signed an 8-point peace agreement, on issues of permanent peace, high-level talks, economic cooperation,
renewal of train, highway and air travel, and a joint Olympic cheering squad. .. much more ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea

You all should be ..

truly thankful to have a President that is capable of 'thinking issues
through' BEFORE reacting with stupidity AND a big dumb LOUD mouth !!!!!

LOLOL .. these will never fail to be FUNNY ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbZqvMu2cQ

and sad .. YUP, MOST OF US ARE GLAD. ECSTATIC, in fact, that George Bush, jnr. Republican president, is finished.