[Of course Bush sees diplomacy with North Korea more likely to yield results: they've already got nukes. Any nation that wants respect from the U.S. and to maintain their sovereignty needs to get theirs ASAP. Wouldn't be surprised if Saddam is telling the truth about WoMD. You can bet that if the inspectors doesn't find any smoking gun the international community will quickly lose interest. He has less need to develop them himself if he can purchase them covertly from NK. Probably already has all presents for next Ramadam picked out and paid for ;-) ] Bush More Hopeful for Diplomacy With Korea Than Iraq By DAVID STOUT[] WASHINGTON, Dec. 31  President Bush said today that he was still hopeful that the confrontations with Iraq and North Korea could be resolved through diplomacy rather than war, though he seemed to express deeper concern over Iraq. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/international/31CND-PREX.html Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun -- Mao Tse-tung