South Korea, and the US devise a strategy to counter North Korea.

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[QUOTE]SEOUL — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that the United States had devised a strategy with South Korea to deter the growing threat of North Korea’s nuclear and chemical weapons programs. In his annual security meeting with South Korea’s minister of national defense, Kim Kwan Jin, Mr. Hagel said that the new agreement — which does not outline any specific new weapons programs but rather a new method for coordinating those efforts — was needed, “not only because of our mutual defense treaty, but also because of our firm view that North Korea’s policies and provocations pose a serious threat to regional stability and global security.”

The two defense ministers also said they would review the prickly issue of when South Korea will obtain wartime control of their combined forces here; the scheduled transfer, developed under the Bush administration, is set to take place in 2015. South Korea has sought to delay that transfer as it increases its capabilities to deal with potential conflicts.

“The Republic of Korea military has grown stronger, more professional and more capable especially over the past decade,” Mr. Hagel said. “This is a trend we want to see continue.”

Negotiators will try to figure out when control will actually be assumed by South Korea, an issue of intense interest on the peninsula. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/world/asia/chuck-hagel-asia-trip.html?_r=0[/url]

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If only Bush had invaded North Korea instead of Iraq.

Nevermind we'd all still be complaining about that.

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I thought our strategy was North Korea being an underdeveloped starving shit hole nation.

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[QUOTE=cqbcat;42387078]I thought our strategy was North Korea being an underdeveloped starving shit hole nation.[/QUOTE]

By denying them pretty much everything until they dismantle their nukes we're doing a good job at helping this.