Some pretty "in your face" sabre-rattling comming from the State Department these days.....
Regards,
Sun
"We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea," Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill told the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday. "We are not going to accept it."
North Korea "can have a future, or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both," Hill said. The U.S. and its allies "are in a very tense time" in dealing with Pyongyang, Hill added.
"We will do all we can to dissuade the DPRK [North Korea] from this test," Hill said.
He declined to say exactly what the United States would do if North Korea undertakes such a test, but said, "we would have no choice but to act resolutely to make sure that the DPRK understood -- and to make sure that any other country understands -- that this (nuclear test) is a very bad mistake."
If North Korea does conduct a test, it "will realize that they had a bad day when they made that choice," he said.
After his appearance, Hill told reporters, "if they think that firing off a weapon will somehow make them a part of some sort of nuclear club, they should think again."
"If they think that by exploding a weapon, that somehow we will come to terms with it, we won't," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/nkorea.nuclear.unresponse/index.html