Posted on 10/31/2006 8:42:38 AM PST by rightinthemiddle
(10-31) 08:08 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --
President Bush on Tuesday welcomed an agreement to bring North Korea back to six-party arms talks and said the United States will insist the communist regime abandon its nuclear weapons program in a verifiable fashion.
To lure the North back, Washington agreed to discuss the financial sanctions the U.S. imposed on North Korea a year ago for its alleged complicity in counterfeiting and money laundering to sell weapons of mass destruction. Those sanctions attempted to sever Pyongyang from the international financial system.
North Korea has boycotted the six-party talks since the sanctions were imposed.
Bush credited China, which has more leverage than any other country with North Korea, with bringing the North back to negotiations.
"I am pleased and I want to thank the Chinese," the president told reporters in the Oval Office, after meeting with Andrew Natsios, his special envoy on Sudan.
"It's clear the North Koreans got the message from the Chinese and everybody else," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill during a news conference in Beijing, October 31, 2006. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
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Bush Pleased at North Korea's Decision to Return to Talks on Nuclear Program - FOXNEWS
It's the October surprise! Rove is behind this! It's all a conspiracy! HALLIBURTON!!!
/idiot liberal rant off
Maybe we can reward North Korea with "most favored nation" trade status as we did with Communist China if they pretend, (oops), if they promise to stop making nuclear bombs. And since we're negotiating with the Axis of Evil, let's get negotiations going with the Iranians too. Then we can chat with Ahmedinejad and help his nation out economically in return for a pretentious guarantee, (oops), guarantee that he will drop his nuclear ambitions too.
Dialogue = compromise = no conviction = rubber spine = a weak America.
Bingo. And you know they'll fare even worse when Iran finishes making their nukes.
We're really blowing it in the War on Terror.
The North Korean double talk should start right about .....................................now!
Everybody is holding their breath about the outcome of these talks. Not.
What will Dr. Rice give away now? Treasure or security?
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The whole thing will collapse in the pre-pre-pre-prenegotiation meetings.
Just like all the previous times.
Just wait, you'll see.
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