Dear Leader,

What's with your recent removal of North Korea from the terrorist list? Come on Georgy, they used to be a part of that ominous "Axis of Evil". I'm a little concerned. I know you are eager to show the rest of the world that they need to comply with our nuclear regulations, but I think this little deal with North Korea might have the reverse effect. Other nations are going to start getting the idea that if they develop nuclear weapons they can use them as a bargaining chip with the United States and the UN (Not that the United States cares about what the UN says these days).

Firstly, do you really believe that North Korea is a legitimate threat to our nation? Foremost, Kim Jong-il is a nationalist. Let's remember it was his father that launched the invasion of South Korea in 1950. Kim wants to make daddy proud, he has two main objectives:
A)Insure the continuation of his regime, and
B)Re-Unite Korea under this regime

I don't think Kim Jong-il ever considers military action against the United States. Let's be honest with ourselves, he's not stupid. He knows very well that if the United States ever had the reason (or sometimes no reason at all in your case Mr. Bush) we could easily crush his regime, probably in a matter of days. Their military investment is high, and the videos of the Nazi-esque North Korean military marching around are scary, but it is still a very small country. They have a population of only about 24 million people. Our military alone contains about 1.5 million active personnel and over 800,000 reserves. The United States accounts for about 50% of global military spending. Kim Jong-il saw what we did to Iraq; he knows that in a one on one fight he will not last too long.

So then it must be clear to you Mr. Bush why Kim would go ahead and obtain nuclear weapons anyway: To use them as a bargaining chip. It sends a message to the rest of the world: Are you a weak country with a regime not supported by the United States government? Develop nuclear weapons and you can bargain with us. Play by all the rules, let all the weapons inspectors in, and we won't believe you - subsequently obliterating your military and causing you to hide in a hole before being put on trial and killed. I don't blame Iran for wanting to develop their nuclear program. If I were Ahmadinejad I would be doing the same thing.

What concerns me the most about North Korea, is that we fucked it up. We had no plan for Korea following World War II, split it straight down the middle without any regard to cultural or environmental boundaries, and then disregarded any option of reuniting the country under the guise of the Cold War. Shouldn't it be our duty to make sure that any reunification of Korea is under the benefit of it's citizens? and letting Kim Jong-il bully us into tolerating his regime is just a shame.

But I know what you're thinking George: Kim Jong-il may be in grave health conditions after his recent dissapearing act. And maybe Kim isn't a threat, but who knows who will succeed him, he has no heir so it could literally be any crazy raving lunatic North Korea has to offer. We gotta get those nukes out now, who knows what the wrong person will do with them. It makes a lot of sense, but don't forget that our friend Mr. Jong-il has done this before.

Don't you think we should be forcing North Korea to allow more freedoms within their media, offer more social services to their citizens, or even to demilitarize a little? The weapons inspectors shouldn't even be an issue at this point, but apparently the Iraq war hasn't seemed to of scared anyone off. Maybe we should of been making sure that North Korea didn't reach nuclear proliferation instead of wasting our time out in the sand blowing up Baghdad.

I don't know George, maybe you know more about this whole North Korea thing than me. You probably have crazy information from the CIA on everything that's going on there. Let's just hope your intelligence on North Korea is better than what you had on Iraq.