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."
Wonderful, maybe it's time to deliver 5 or 6 more
That said, I'm not overly concerned about their conventional forces.
They are just a saber to rattle in the face of South Korea, and in the tradition of Sun Ztu, one never rattles a weapon that will actually be used.
But nukes are a whole different situation.
Whoever proclaimed "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions" had Jimmy Carter summed up. Stupid Southern fool. Has there ever been a more DISASTEROUS foreign policy chief executive? Twenty-five years on and we're still trying to clean up his Mid-East mess. And now we've got his 1990's do-gooder "Peace Prize" brain dead North Korean work for Clinton to clean up as well.
The man was and is incompetent beyond imagination! Too bad that "killer jackrabbit" didn't get 'im!
Clinton is so damned Carteresque in foreign incompetence I want to pull my hair out. He lead us right into 9/11 and this FAILED North Korean policy. He's barely been gone FOUR years! Just imagine his chickens come home to roost in 10, 15, 20 years! I think it's time to dig out the old shovels and civil preparedness manuals. Where's my fallout shelter when I need it?
I just cannot believe these Democrat folks are so insane as to believe it is AMERICA that needs to be held in check. They act not in our AMERICAN interest but in our enemies' and would-be enemies' interests! Truman would probably be ashamed!
Call me when they test one........................
Clinton is an idiot .
Their candidate, John Kerry, lost so they are playing the same role as DU is playing here.
I think all americans should be very proud of America's "restraint"..
I think there are a few historians that would agree that America has had the opportunity to take over a good part of the world in the last 100 years..
In fact, it has had several opportunities..
Hmmmphh.. Maybe we should have taken them....
"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."
How stupid do they think we are to think that this has anything to do with Bush. It takes more than four years to acquire the knowledge and materials to implement a Nuclear weapons program discreetly.
of course the dems will eat this up as another problem created by Bush...idiots.
This one is completely and totally on Clinton....thats all I have to say.
Hey,NK only peddles missiles,the nukes are done by their buddy Pakistan(read allegations of selling to Libya,Egypt & Saudi Arabia)!!
Cool pic,but isn't that either the Pakistani Ghauri or the Iranian Shihab-3??Well it really makes no difference as both missiles are repainted versions of the Nodong(in exchange for nukes & oil)!!
That picture of Kim and Not-Bright should have a magnum barf alert warning on it. LOL
North Korea already had enough chemical weapons and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them to kill everyone in South Korea and take a good piece of Japan, Manilla, Beijing, Kamchatka, etc. along with them.
The biggest problem with nukes is that a couple of missiles can now some of the same damage a thousand missiles would have done before.
Some of Jong-Il's Nodong missiles could probably reach Hawaii (and soon perhaps the continental US) (and LOL at that "I have Nodong" cartoon.)
Then there is the chance that NK would transfer them to someone (like an Osama for instance.) Just last week, it was proven that NK illegally sold uranium hexaflouride to Libya. Not a big step to sell enriched uranium or plutonium or an actual nuke.
Airburst over Pyongyang.
The NoKo army will be lost without command and control from the top.
bump
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