Precedent

[NuurAbSaal]

Thanks for the info on Yemen, I'll read it as soon as I have some time, hopefully before tomorrw.

The regime of North Korea has *not* shown this to be the case, although they are making a lot of noise. However, unlike Saddam who has used such weapons on enemies and on his own population within the last twenty year, Korea has not been actively in any war for half a century. There is little more reason to suspect that Korea will use WMD

IMO letting literally millions of people starve to maintain the fourth (right?) strongest army in the world nicely shows the ethics of the NK regime. To me it looks like they've completely lost touch with reality and with the absence of any moderate members the NK "governement" qualifies as being capable of anything for me. Even a nuclear strike. NK forces are involved in incidents with SK troops on a regular basis (though not THAT often) and escalation seems enough likely for me to be somewhat scared. A hell of a lot more scared than thinking about Iraq.

Your last two paragraphs contain everything I meant to say (and more) but was too lazy to write :) . I agree with almost everything except your UN comment:

And few nations are willing to put their trust in the UN, and considering the UN's inability to do anything constructive, they might be right.

You almost sound as if a world without UN would be a better place to settle conflicts/deal with problems on an international level. Surely I misunderstood?!

I think the future (a very distant one, mind you) will show that only a global scale institution such as the UN (more likely a different version than ours) can hope of achieving something like World Peace™, if such a thing is actually possible, but maybe that belongs in a new thread.

Again I show signs of being a naive optimist, with the exclusion of NK, of course :)

Greetings
Nuur