Bush Signals Patience on North Korea Is Waning

The Washington Post ^ | March 4, 2004 | Glenn Kessler

[neverdem]

Directive Sent to Team At Talks in Beijing

After a Chinese request for greater flexibility during last week's six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis, President Bush instructed the U.S. delegation to make it clear that the administration's patience in diplomatically seeking North Korea's dismantling of its weapons program could run out, U.S. officials said.

The instructions, delivered as a third day of talks began last Friday in Beijing, came as the negotiators at the talks struggled to draft a detailed, two-page statement laying out the steps for resolving the crisis. Bush, after consultation with Vice President Cheney and other senior aides, sent the curt directive after China sought to include in the statement a reference to North Korea's demand that the United States change its "hostile policy."

Bush's answer, once it was submitted by the U.S. delegation, essentially halted the discussions on the detailed statement, U.S. officials said. China, the host of the talks, instead began to press for a bland, process-oriented statement that would commit the parties to continuing the talks at a later date. But that effort failed as well after North Korea balked at the last minute.

[RightWhale]

Of course Bush might be expected to respond to N Kor's endorsement of Kkerry.

[Physicist]

Suspend food shipments until the situation is resolved to our total satisfaction. I am absolutely serious about this.

[onedoug]

And Bush really is a model. When I get impatient, I think of him, and it helps.

[Enterprise]

"Bush Signals Patience on North Korea Is Waning"

Uh oh.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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N. Korea says it loves KERRY =

BUSH says to N. Korea "Cough it up"

I LOVE BUSH..!!!

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[FreeManWhoCan]

Damn this sucks! I want to read the whole article.. dammit..

[VOA]

Bush Signals Patience on North Korea Is Waning

I don't know the mechanism, but the CIA should develop a psychological operation off this
to send a message to Kim Jong-Il (sp?).

As in, "you little peckerwood, you'd better pray that Dubya is elected in Nov. 2004...
because if he isn't, you'll assume room temperature before John Forbes Kerry
puts his hand on a Bible in January 2005".

[trek]

DPRK -> Democrat Party's Red Kin

Let's hope Bush finishes them both off by November.

[gaijin]

Why on earth are we giving them food aid?

When you steal as a bully instructs you, you invite further abuse.

Cut them off, and they might listen. And if they don't? Who cares?

Let them really savour that bark and grass flambe...

[neverdem]

LOL

[SunkenCiv]

China sought to include in the statement a reference to North Korea's demand that the United States change its "hostile policy."

There's another FR thread about China's 10 per cent increase in military spending.