Posted on 10/09/2006 12:26:47 AM PDT by bd476
You are finding all the good stuff.
People still don't get it that there are evil nuts in this world, who only understand force and negotiations with them only emboldens them.
The time for sanctions was in 1994, and military action a year later, if NK didn't comply, instead the Clinton administration gave NK nukes.
Timeline: North Korea's nuclear weapons program
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716096/posts
_1993: North Korea shocks world by saying it will quit Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.
_1994: North Korea, United States sign agreement in Geneva, North pledges to freeze, eventually dismantle, nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.
_Sept. 17, 1999: U.S. President Bill Clinton agrees to first major easing of economic sanctions against North Korea since Korean War's end in 1953.
_July 2000: North Korea threatens to restart nuclear program if Washington does not compensate for loss of electricity due to delays in building nuclear power plants.
No, it really isn't good news at all. Thank you for the link, B-Chan.
Everyone at FR is good at finding info. Still, that's quite a compliment, F.O. Thanks. :-)
Thank you for supplying the background information, the link to the thread and the time line!
I guess talking and gifts didn't work. Heck, aren't the South Koreans still shipping rice to the KoreaComs?
yitbos
A North Korean soldier gestures from a ship on the Yalu River at Dandong, on China's border with North Korea Monday Oct. 9, 2006. (AP / Greg Baker)
I bet they're hungry... :)
LOL!
That ship looks like is suffers from dry rot wonder what is keeping the windows in place?
Riiiight. ;-)
Hmm, let me think...
- termites holding hands,
- rat droppings duct-taped together,
- mold bonded with superglue,
- braided lint ropes and/or
- 3 month old unrefrigerated leftover kimchi
Ohmigawd...the Eurowussies aren't gonna like Rummie calling them "ineffective"...
No, but they have undoubtedly become quite accustomed to hearing it. Along the lines of "if the shoe fits" and all that...
Trio Sings "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in 3 part harmony
One of them had to be thrown out of power, literally! Germany said "Auf wiedersehen" to Der Steuer Meister Schroeder.
Chirac's definitely out next year. It will be Center-right Sarkozy, Le Pen with an outside chance if the vieux con still wants to run.
Putin retires next year as well with elections scheduled. The world starts to look better already, no?
And again, Rummy would be correct. The International community IS a failure, a total and complete failure.
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