Bush labeled North Korea as part of the axis of evil because it is possible that they are working towards getting nukes and because of their human rights violations. Are they really “evil” probably not, but their Government certainly isn”t friendly, not to its citizens and not to the western powers.
Reuters just published a story here about North Korea’s warm welcome to Barrack Obama’’s new presidency. The basis of the story is that North Korea just scrapped almost all of its agreements with South Korea, essentially a bit slap in the face for the USA diplomatically, but it could also be seen as an aggressive move by them. What interesting about this is it happened so soon after Obama became president. What kind of message does that send about him? Probably that North Korea thinks he will be a pushover. It”ll be interesting to see how he does deal with this…
