If the US gets it’s way Korea may become a NATO partner:

U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Tuesday that President George W Bush will propose at the upcoming NATO summit in Riga, Latvia, a program to bring Japan, South Korea and Australia closer to the military alliance.

The three countries “do not seek NATO membership, but we seek a partnership with them so that we can train more intensively from a military point of view,” he said. Japan, South Korea and Australia have all deployed troops in Iraq as members of the “coalition of the willing,” Burns stressed. Japan has been seeking closer ties with NATO, with Foreign Minister Taro Aso having expressed Tokyo’s willingness to strengthen coordination in his speech at a meeting of senior NATO officials in Brussels in May.

First of all, I can’t believe the lunatic left, backed by North Korean agents in South Korea will be to happy about this. Secondly China won’t be to happy either, especially if the US expects China to do anything about North Korea. Than again this just may be a bargaining chip to get China to do something about North Korea.

HT: Coming Anarchy