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What's really screwy about the whole thing is that North Korea is like China's troublesome cousin. They piss China off, but China's got too much stake in it, especially when you consider how much it would suck of North Korea became destabilized. That would definately not be in China's best interests in terms of territorial integrity. I don't think China wants anyone to do anything with North Korea beyond diplomacy and economic actions. Anything else, they'd want to have the ball in their own court.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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