Canada should proceed with caution

I read with some misgiving the AP report that “Canada will assist the U.S. in co-hosting an international meeting on North Korea in an attempt to find a non-military solution.”

For one thing, assisting the U.S. might only mean assisting its mentally unstable president. And why would an international meeting be necessary to find something so readily at hand as a non-military solution?

The North Korea nuclear issue could not be simpler for several reasons:

1. Their president, Kim Jongun, will only attack the U.S. if he is suicidal, in which case there is nothing we can do about that.

2. A U.S. retaliation (or preemptive attack), nuclear or not, would largely or completely destroy both North Korea and South Korea (the latter our ally, by the way) and do nobody knows how much damage to nearby nations - or, indeed, to far away nations.

3. If Kim Jong-un is not suicidal, all he wants is a deterrence ¬ and seeing what the U. S. did to nuclear weapon free Iraq and Libya and its animosity toward himself and his nation, why would he not want deterrence?

4. Many other countries have nukes as deterrents and it has worked so far. Why not let Kim have his? That would make for a non-military solution as good as can be had.

5. In all likelihood, North Korea will be the last country to want Nuclear weapons. It is the only country without any I can think of who could or would try to acquire any.

In any case, after the way we got suckered into joining the U.S. in the still unsuccessful wars it got into in the Middle East post 9/11, we should be very wary of joining that country in any kind of international activity that might involve military action.