Posted on 02/09/2005 11:15:30 PM PST by sonsofliberty2000
Edited on 02/09/2005 11:33:13 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) publicly admitted Thursday for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and said it wouldn't return to six-nation talks aimed at getting it to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
Diplomats have said that North Korea has acknowledged having nuclear arms in private talks, but this is the first time the communist government has said so directly to the public.
"We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) and have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
DPRK refers to the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
North Korea's "nuclear weapons will remain (a) nuclear deterrent for self-defense under any circumstances," the ministry said. "The present reality proves that only powerful strength can protect justice and truth."
Since 2003, the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia have held three rounds of talks in Beijing aimed at persuading the North to abandon nuclear weapons development in return for economic and diplomatic rewards. But no significant progress has been made.
A fourth round scheduled for September was canceled when North Korea refused to attend, citing what it called a "hostile" U.S. policy.
Thursday's statement came after President Bush (news - web sites) started his second term last month by refraining from direct criticism of North Korea raising hopes that the North would return to the stalled nuclear talks. But North Korea said it had little hope for improved ties during Bush's second term office.
"We have wanted the six-party talks but we are compelled to suspend our participation in the talks for an indefinite period till we have recognized that there is justification for us to attend the talks," the North said Thursday.
North Korea said it came to its decision because "the U.S. disclosed its attempt to topple the political system in the DPRK at any cost, threatening it with a nuclear stick."
Still, North Korea said it retained its "principled stand to solve the issue through dialogue and negotiations and its ultimate goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula remain unchanged."
Yes, I recall thinking this very thing, six or seven years ago. Especially in regard to China. And here we are. Bummer.
What does he think that the US and Israel are about to do? Your assessment please. Thanks.
And Billy Boob Klintoon's legacy keeps marchin' on.....
As a retired US Army MP, carter has been known to F-Up many a wet dream for America.
"Admits"? More like "brags" about its nonexistent nukes. They seem to be under the mistaken impression that claiming they have nukes is going to help their position.
Esteemed Freepers:
North Korea is the least of your problems!
Seen the Iraq vote tally? At the cost of 1,500 American and countless thousands of Iraqi lives, President Sick-in-the-Head has successfully installed a HARDCORE SHI'ITE THEOCRACY, hostile to U.S. interests and destined to ally with Iran against the dreadful "next step" our chief toady-diplomat hinted at yesterday - invading Iran.
Wash the purple ink off your fingers yet??? Better pull 'em out of your arses and start dreaming up some lame-o reason to challenge Iraq's election results.
But I digress. Back to North Korea! See today's Times? Watch your boy Bush cower like a lil' Bee-YOTCH as Kim Jong-Il (who seems even loonier) flexes nukes that Saddam could only wet-dream about. Kim could bomb Seoul tomorrow. And probably, Honolulu.
But wait!!!! Back to the nettlesome past! Watch Scotty McClellan bob and weave like a winded cobra as he struggle to explain the 9/11 report addedum Bushie tried to suppress for so long -- and which, we learn today, says that Bush's FAA feared this attack for MONTHS while nothing was done. Why, it's almost enough to think the Administration KNEW OR PERHAPS ENCOURAGED Al-Quaeda as part of a strategy to establish a powerful culture of fear in America.
I smell treason, high treason...
(Okay, I know you all don't read the New York Times, biased liberal fishwrap that it is. Why don't you get your reporter/escort extraordinaire Jeff Gannon on the story? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!)
Friends, the wheel spins faster and faster every day, and its axis - the true axis of evil - is beginning to crack.
As that happens, may you suck sorrow through a straw. Admit, in quiet tearful moments, the monstrous wickedness that led to your personal role in destroying America: her definitive civil liberties, economy and prestige, as we devolve into a despised warrior state.
The race to the bottom will have its felicites. I'll be glad to see your SUVs beached like whales in your cul-de-sacs when gas hits $5 a gallon and rationing begins.
I'll be happier to see you scramble to keep your sons and daughters out of the draft that will come, sooner or later (although I'm betting later; Rove knows that's when the merde will hit the fan).
You may miss your sons and daughters...but you'll always be able to revel in the monkeyshines of the daughters Bush, Jenna and not-Jenna, who'll never have to don cammies and spit-shined boots unless its a fashion statement en route to another drunken bender at Clyde's!
Ciao!
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Rats. Missed it.
OOooo, that had a "lightning quick" effect!
Shufbuck, I hate to tell you this.. but..
The stuff that my nephew dumps into his diaper has more sentience than you do, and it makes much more sense.
Perhaps you should redo KINDERGARTEN before posting your idiocy for all to see.
Mod's been practicing casting 'quickfire', 'chain lightning', and 'smite.'
Kitten chow.
In the future, I would ask that the admin mods use grape, bar and chain shot for more visual effect.
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