Posted on 04/18/2013 2:08:41 AM PDT by Corporate Democrat
Pyongyang wants withdrawal of all UN sanctions and US pledge not to engage in 'nuclear war practice' with South
North Korea has issued a detailed statement on its terms for dialogue with the United States, after weeks of tensions.
The demands from the North's top military body include the withdrawal of all UN sanctions imposed due to Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests, and a US pledge not to engage in "nuclear war practice" with the South. It said denuclearisation of the peninsula should begin with the withdrawal of US weapons.
Seoul was swift to dismiss the North's conditions as incomprehensible and illogical. The foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said: "We again strongly urge North Korea to stop this kind of insistence that we cannot totally understand and go down the path of a wise choice."
The Japanese news agency Kyodo said the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, had called for increased pressure on the North.
Leonid Petrov, an expert on the North at the Australian National University, said of the North's statement: "It's a good sign, they are prepared to negotiate, but they are demanding an exorbitant and impermissibly high price … The game will continue."
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They like it when we’re “busy”; it means they are more free to do what they please.
Test who, the liberals? It’s not the hawks in charge right now, remember.
Mini Kim and Mini-Mini Kim!
you haven’t been in the forest lately, I see.
North Korea has made bigger fools of themselves than usual with this whole saga. Every day was a threat that they were going to attack the U.S., Seoul, or Japan. Every day, they failed to act on their threats. In fact, they’ve seemed to quiet down. They like to rattle their cage, but they are afraid to do anything big because they know that would be it. Maybe they’ll suprise me, but I don’t see it. We have the leverage here. They can go sit by themselves in their isolated corner.
We are Red China?
Consider the context, and it was a question.
The only entity with leverage over North Korea right now is Red China—as long as we have doves in DC. And there are just too many doves in both parties right now.
so ‘We’ can be considered china? okay ... got it!
How’s your reading comprehension today?
I would definitely say the lefties in DC already consider us part of Red China’s “internationalist” wannabe empire. Remember Anita Dunn’s expression of admiration for Mao? never mind the open communist Van Jones?
Thanks for nothing, Mr. Nixon.
oh ... pretty good.
I like IKE!
The most powerful nation on earth, Riiiiiight.
Is that your opinion or did you read it in the article?
Liberals don't do very well on tests of any kind.....
Indeed, and they are especially inept when the test is of their courage.
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