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Report: Kim Has No Plans for Second Nuclear Test, Regrets First Test
FOX NEWS ^ | Friday, October 20, 2006 | AP

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: axis; brix; nodong; ronery
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1 posted on 10/20/2006 5:08:47 AM PDT by psychopuppy
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To: psychopuppy

My first thought to hearing this was that the Chicoms put a gun to his head and told him what to say.


2 posted on 10/20/2006 5:09:56 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: psychopuppy

Anybody who believes that, stand on your head.


3 posted on 10/20/2006 5:11:26 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Petronski

I suspect a test on or near election day.


4 posted on 10/20/2006 5:12:24 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: psychopuppy

5 posted on 10/20/2006 5:12:24 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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To: psychopuppy

The Chinese took away his matches ---- for now.


6 posted on 10/20/2006 5:13:19 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: psychopuppy

He's so ronery now...and running out of Johhny Walker.


7 posted on 10/20/2006 5:13:54 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Mohammed was the L. Ron Hubbard of his time.)
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To: TADSLOS

Victory for Bush! Well, maybe this is not entirely because of Bush/Rice administration efforts but you can bet if clinton, gore, or kerry were president the media would be lauding them for defusing the situation.


8 posted on 10/20/2006 5:18:00 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: psychopuppy

Just proves that the Chinese had the power to reign this fool in all along, but wasn't using it.


9 posted on 10/20/2006 5:21:17 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: psychopuppy

Translation: I ran outta fire crackers.


10 posted on 10/20/2006 5:22:55 AM PDT by evad (sarcasm may be introduced at any moment of any post)
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To: psychopuppy

Yep, he told this to Bubba and Madeline so I guess we should believe him.


11 posted on 10/20/2006 5:23:33 AM PDT by Clink ("Government is not the solution, government is the problem".--Ronald Reagan)
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To: psychopuppy

What did we have to give the Chinese to get this result?


12 posted on 10/20/2006 5:24:47 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Islam came up with "Zero" to describe the rest of their creative output)
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To: wagglebee

More like Bolton put the gun to China's head and they saw the light.


13 posted on 10/20/2006 5:26:16 AM PDT by OldFriend (MSM SPANNING THE WORLD TO SUPPORT AMERICA'S ENEMIES)
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To: psychopuppy
It appears to me that Bush's "get tough" policy is working.

Someone let me know when Clinnochio or Jimmah recognizes that Bush's "failed North Korea policies" are actually working.

14 posted on 10/20/2006 5:26:19 AM PDT by JCEccles
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To: psychopuppy
Kim also expressed regret about his country's nuclear test ...

Not as sorry as you're GONNA be...

15 posted on 10/20/2006 5:26:55 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: psychopuppy
"Rice has reassured Seoul that the U.S. will defend the country if the North attacks. She brought a similar message to Japan, her first stop on a four-day trip devoted mostly to talks on the nuclear crisis."

Maybe a case of Rice saying to Japan and South Korea, to relief of China, "No need for your own nukes". China talks to NK. QUID PRO QUO?

Rice and Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan meet in Beijing for a beer, hoist bottles to celebrate deal?

16 posted on 10/20/2006 5:27:59 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet
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To: Petronski

OK, what next?


17 posted on 10/20/2006 5:28:20 AM PDT by sonsofliberty2000
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To: OldFriend

I believe that the Chicoms eventually plan to go to war with the US, but I think it is probably fifty to a hundred years away. Their prosperity is too dependent upon us right now and a war would destroy that. They like the idea of the North Koreans being a thorn in our side, but they don't want to push it to the point that we do something.


18 posted on 10/20/2006 5:31:00 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: aynrandfreak; psychopuppy
What did we have to give the Chinese to get this result?

Could be. Or it could be as simple as it seems.

The Chinese plan is a long "bide our time" strategy. Chinese are more conservative than Goldwater. Ronery brought this to the point of US Navy interdicting Korean shipments. China don't need outright hostilities on the Korean Peninsula right now. Instability yes, live fire, no.

6-party talks worked as well as any theoretical international DoS or DoD plan could actually work, I think.

19 posted on 10/20/2006 5:31:48 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Petronski

Hitler regrets the Holocaust, Saddam Hussein regrets mass murder and torture, Stalin and Mao regret starving millions to death, homosexuals regret causing AIDS pandemic, and Teddy Chappaquiddick Kennedy regrets killing Mary Jo Kopechne.


20 posted on 10/20/2006 5:35:38 AM PDT by pleikumud
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