Russian Tank
Posted on 10/20/2006 5:08:47 AM PDT by psychopuppy
BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told a visiting Chinese delegation that the communist nation didn't plan to conduct additional nuclear tests, a news report said Friday.
Kim told Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan that "we have no plans for additional nuclear tests," Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed diplomatic source in Beijing.
Kim also expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to the delegation and said Pyongyang would return to nuclear talks if Washington backs off from its financial sanctions, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday.
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Who is to say that Kim doesn't have that at his disposal? Not everyone starts from scratch on these things. There are plenty of other countries that would love the data from such a test but for political reasons cannot conduct one on their own. Even Kim's nearby benefactors could have ben involved.
Consider, too, that the first test could have been a smashing success (npi) and that further tests are unnecessary. Why not be magnaminous in that case and play the "look, he apologized ... what a guy!" game the press and Europe seems to lap up?
The Chinese must have threatened to take away his basketball.
Wish I could have heard that conversation.
"No more make big boom!"
Shouldn't this be under the Friday Silliness thread? LOL
my parents forced me to say sorry many times as a child.
I rarely meant it.
"My first thought to hearing this was that the Chicoms put a gun to his head and told him what to say."
I think you may have a point there.
Russian Tank
"My first thought to hearing this was that the Chicoms put a gun to his head and told him what to say."
I like the way you think.
"Say you're sorry, or I'm going to make this the worst day of your life."
Coercion can get us to do a lot of things we don't mean.
Yeah and their's cheese on the moon
You know how I'd end this...I'd take 1000 of our 20,000 or so nukes...put 250 on the Island of Japan, 250 in South Korea, 250 on the Island of Taiwan, and 250 in Georgia (the country not the state for those of you in Rio-linda). Then I would send a letter to the ChiChoms, Putin, and "Little Kim" with nothing but a smiley face in front of a nuclear explosion - "Have a nice day!"
Could be, but I doubt Kim actually knows much about military matters and it was his Army Generals who wanted the test. He should go much farther now and throw open the borders to let American capitalists in to develop his miserable country.
If he regrets the first one, he's going to really learn the definition of regret if and when he detonates a second one.
The NK recipe for success:
Test Nuke so Iran can see what they'll be buying.
Get sanctioned as a result
Express regret to eliminate sanctions
Sell Nukes to Iran
Watch the $$$$ roll in
Obviously, something went terribly wrong with the first test.
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