BUSH TO CONSIDER ASKING U.N. FOR QUARANTINE OF NORTH KOREA...(DRUDGE)

[Lunatic Fringe]

No link yet...

[Texas Eagle]

Isn't North Korea pretty much quarantining itself?

[concerned about politics]

The U.N. is worthless. They'll do nothing.
This is a good way to expose the U.N. for what it is to the American people, though.

[CFC__VRWC]

He may as well get the usual suspects on record now as to their refusal to do anything to deal with N. Korea.

[Petronski]

Blockade? Looking for what?




Provocative.

[nuconvert]

Quarantine? because of avian flu?
Or is this because of their possible nuke test?

[Echo Talon]

Hmmm even before someone considers something its news?

[dc-zoo]

Marburg Virus.. SARS? Kim Jung ILL?

[Delta 21]

[aynrandfreak]

Maybe it's a new way to isolate them for not agreeing to multi-party talks without using sanctions that North Korea, in the past, has threatened war over.

[LdSentinal]

If there's a quarantine, how will Kim Jong Ill get his DVD of Team America: World Police?

[Captainpaintball]

Quarantine? because of avian flu? Or is this because of their possible nuke test?

Gas emmissions caused by eating a steady diet of tree bark, moss, dogs, and freshly expired human beings?

[KJC1]

That's about right. I ticked off a few people last time I criticized Drudge's headlines, but why not give it another go, lol!

[Calpernia]

NW_Az, this is about what you were just listening to on the radio.

[nuconvert]

Quarantine seems like an odd word if this is having to do with nuke testing.

[Darkwolf]

I was about to say that if he's quarantined he'll REALLY be ronery.

[dc-zoo]

That's what I thought too.

[FairOpinion]

It probably has to do with the collapse of talks and that N. Korea is about to test a nuclear weapon.


N.Korean General Says U.S. Brought Talks to Collapse

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=698052

Apr 24, 2005

The United States has brought six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs to a collapse, the chief of the general staff of the North Korean army said on Sunday.

Vice Marshal Kim Yong-chun, a member of the North's powerful National Defense Commission, told a national meeting his country would steadily bolster its nuclear capability to counter an invasion by the United States.

"The U.S. brought the six-party talks to a collapse and has staged large-scale madcap war exercises targeted against the DPRK after massively shipping ultra-modern war equipment and a nuclear strike group into South Korea in a bid to bring down our system," Kim was quoted as saying by the official KCNA news agency.

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Signs Stir Concern North Korea Might Test Nuclear Bomb

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10477-2005Apr22.html

U.S. officials are increasingly concerned that North Korea may be preparing its first test of a nuclear weapon, though they warn that the information is sketchy and not definitive.

A top U.S. diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, flew to the region yesterday to consult over the weekend with officials in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul about the signs that a test may be in the works. Officials especially want China, North Korea's main patron, to use its leverage with Pyongyang to stop it from conducting a test.

[Calpernia]

If it was for some virus, wouldn't the WHO be asked to 'quarantine'?

[spokeshave]

Could be some Dubbya Strategery to isolate the dims on Bolton as they seem to have shot their wad, half cocked and hosted on their petard.

Bid dose of Schardenfreude coming up.