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[Panthro]

I'd really hope we can come to some sort of peaceful solution.

After all, we are *supposed* to be civilized.

We are seeing a new age of nuclear proliferation, which is quite a scary thing. It will cause people to make rash choices, instead of rational ones.

There are already reports of hardline stances being taken by both South Korea and Japan, with some Japanese higher-ups thinking they should scrap their current "defence only" military strategy.

And all this is avoiding the problems in the rest of the world... not least instability in Africa (Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe), a massive insurgency in northern Pakistan (another nuclear armed state), sabre-rattling Russia, and who knows what China is thinking...