Obama the cookbook diplomat shows off his achievement before the world. How repulsive is that, having diplomatic relations with a 'rogue state', a nation listed on GWB's 'Axis of Evil' list.
Posted on 12/31/2009 9:03:32 PM PST by myknowledge
North Korea early on Friday called for an end to hostile relations with the United States, after a year marked by nuclear and missile tests and its rejection of international peace efforts.
The call was made in a New Year joint editorial of several leading state North Korean newspapers, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, and comes with a US Christian missionary apparently detained in the isolated country.
"The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between the DPRK and the USA," KCNA quoted the editorial as saying.
It also addressed international concerns about Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities after 2009 saw Washington attempt to bring Kim Jong-il's communist regime back to stalled six-nation talks on the issue.
"It is the consistent stand of the DPRK (North Korea) to establish a lasting peace system on the Korean peninsula and make it nuclear-free through dialogue and negotiations," the editorial said.
The US detainee, Robert Park, aged 28, was reported by colleagues to have crossed the frozen Tumen River from China on Christmas Day in a one-man protest against repression in the hardline North.
A US citizen of Korean ancestry, he claimed he had seen a vision from God of North Korea's liberation and redemption, his colleagues said, adding that Park crossed the border shouting, "I came here to proclaim God's love".
The North said on Tuesday it had detained an American for illegal entry from China, its first apparent reference to Park. It said the man, whom it did not name, was under investigation.
In March, two US television journalists who crossed into North Korea from China spent more than four months behind bars for illegal entry.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years' hard labour but were freed following a mission led by former US president Bill Clinton in August.
After months of sabre-rattling marked by a nuclear test and missile launches, the North used Clinton's visit to extend peace feelers to Washington.
South Korea has said Park's detention would not hurt efforts to resume the six-party nuclear disarmament talks.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth visited Pyongyang in December to try to persuade it to return to the forum, which groups the two Koreas, the US, Japan, Russia and China.
Friday's New Year Day editorial also put great emphasis on what it called bringing about "a radical turn in the people's standard of living" in impoverished North Korea.
This would be achieved by quicker development of light industry and agriculture, KCNA said.
"Our building of the country into an economic giant is aimed, to all intents and purposes, at radically improving the people's standard of living," the editorial quoted Kim as saying.
The editorial warned neighbouring South Korea against "committing acts that may aggravate the confrontation and tension, and take the road of respecting the inter-Korean declarations, promoting north-south dialogue and improving the relations between both sides".
Obama the cookbook diplomat shows off his achievement before the world. How repulsive is that, having diplomatic relations with a 'rogue state', a nation listed on GWB's 'Axis of Evil' list.
One sign of honesty on their part is to return the USS Pueblo unharmed to the United States. After we get it back, then we can talk about anything that’s on their mind. Until then, forget it.
That means they’re going to screw us over real good in 2010.
Nothing short of REGIME CHANGE (for the better) will make ANY DIFFERENCE WITH THIS ROGUE STATE, Republican and Democrat Administration alike.
Now the question is how to provide goods population will undoubtedly want to purchase with new load of money. If there is no supply of goods, N. Korea risks hyperinflation. Or goods will get really scarce, and hyperinflation will happen in black market. Either way, it will happen.
Therefore, he wants outsiders to provide the goods. This is probably why he now sounds nice. It has nothing to do with abandoning his nukes. Another sucker move to extort lots of goodies in exchange for going back to some negotiation posture similar to what they did prior to 2008.
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They are merely in a "carrot mode" right now, because they misbehaved for most of 2009, then the stupid Americans who dont look at diplomatic history with the DPRK, will say "Hey! Gee! This is GREAT! They are usually assholes, but now they are being reasonable. We better give them what they want because they are doing what we want now."
They will get whatever they want out of Uncle Sap for the next six months I predict, then by summer they will be back to launching ICBM long range missiles or doing underground nuclear tests or threatening war along the DMZ.
It is their cycle and so totally predictable behavior.
And we are FOOLISH to not learn ANYTHING from this scam pulled over and over and over.
When these are scrapped, I will think twice about improved US-DPRK relations.
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