North Korean satellite 'tumbling out of control,' US officials say

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41. With all the world ssnctions and 'starving' people for any nation to accomplish this is

kinda remarkable to me. Would it not be better to have N.Korea sit at the table of nations and engage them as a sovereign nation trying to enter the 21st century instead of making them a perpetual enemy toy justify the need for more and more weapons of war? Maybe treating them as we would like them to be might actually help them become a sane nation. Obviously their people have something to offer just as all peoples around the world. We have during our history sat with some of the most brutal in-humane dictators as respected leaders of their nations...but they were the pariahs we liked. As long as Saddam was treated like a leader of his sovereign nation we were able to deal with him, supplying him with the very weapons we later said made him a bad person. Yet we were able to ally ourselves with the past Shah of Iran and Musharaff who overthrew and duly elected sovereign and set up a military dictatorship... but they were our pals. Look at the outcome. We refuse to deal with governments we don't like even when they are no real threat to us simply because their economic and social systems we view as a threat to capitalism. Cuba is another example. Think what these "outcast" nations and governments may have been able to contribute to the world had we not insisted on making them pariahs and labeled them "terrorists." Think who does the labeling and for what reasons. Our sons and daughters are sent off to die and we kill thousands for what purpose? Freedom and democracy? I think not. More for the power and wealth of the 2% of the world who are very good at making us believe black is white, evil is good, and lies are truth.