> >If the US could risk a nuclear war with the fSU, why
> > it would not do so in
> > Koreas
> Well, it wasn't rational then. Maybe they are
> calculating sensibly on this point. jks
The Agreed Framework:
For North Korea, another important aspect of the accord was the U.S. pledge to "provide formal assurances to the DPRK against the threat or use of nuclear weapons by the United States," a commitment that it says the United States has not lived up to. While North Korea has failed to fulfill all its obligations, Washington has continued to hold a nuclear sword over it. In March 1997, the chief of U.S. Strategic Command told Congress that just as the United States threatened Iraq with nuclear weapons in 1991, "that same message was passed on to the North Koreans back in 1995." And documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the air force carried out simulated nuclear strikes against North Korea in 1998 (see "Preemptive Posturing," September/October 2002 Bulletin, pp. 54-59)."
See: North Korea's Nuclear Programme 2003 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March-April 2003 http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/ma03nukenote.html
Ulhas