Breakthrough as NKorea agrees to resume nuclear talks

AP via Yahoo! ^ | October 31, 2006 | Peter Harmsen

[Brilliant]

Looks like Bush is a genius (by Democrat standards). He's gotten North Korea to talk. Everything will be fine now.

[Red Badger]

RoVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!.......

[Tzimisce]

Then it's agreed, we will have ranch dressing on our salads. Oh, light dressing?

Oh crap, he hung up again...

-Liberal US diplomats making "breakthroughs" with North Korea

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hope someone informs Senator Lugar.

[capt. norm]

Typical AP grammar:

one of the most poorest and isolated regimes in the world.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Hey, maybe this will help the repubs in the election.
Woo hoo! Sorta like Nixon and China.

[JimSEA]

The cynic in me thinks that Mr. Kim just need some more time to iron out problems his first nuclear test revealed but my non-cynical self thinks Mr. Kim just need some more time to iron out problems his first nuclear test revealed.

[Brilliant]

Methinks that the third wheel of the Axis of Evil is about come off.

[AlaskaErik]

This isn't a breakthrough...it's a stalling tactic.

[antiRepublicrat]

Please, please don't let Bush be a sucker and believe anything they say. Don't give an inch in exchange for promises, hard evidence only.

[Brilliant]

What's he stalling? We aren't going to do anything anyway, and he knows it.

What's happened is that the Chinese finally realize that this is not helping them.

[Brilliant]

Bush is probably going to let the Chinese and the Japanese do the talking.

[RexBeach]

"Me love you long time!" -Dear Leader

Yeah, right.

[RightWhale]

Was it the UN, or was it the Japanese Navy? Maybe it was Secy Rice saying that the full range of US nukes work just fine. Maybe it was a phone call from Beijing at three in the morning.

[Zack Nguyen]

This could be significant, if only because it leaves liberals with egg on their face. The left had been insisting that NK's nuclear test was all Bush's fault because he wouldn't engage NK one-on-one. Now it looks like our approach has worked.

[theDentist]

I can't see how people think this is a breakthrough... NK has agreed to talk and pulled out the rug 10 times before. Why wouldn't they do it again? Saying this is a breakthrough is akin to telling someone dying of aids that the lesions are a pretty color.

[Brilliant]

I don't think that anything Kim agrees to is a breakthru. But this time he's not doing it voluntarily. The Chinese are poking him with a spear. It's just a question of how far they are willing to go. They could crush him like a bug tomorrow.


And it would never have happened at all if Bush had agreed to one on one talks, as demanded by the Dems and the McCain wing.

[Cementjungle]

This isn't a breakthrough...it's a stalling tactic.

Either that or another attempt to extort more money and nuke parts out of the West.

[White Bear]

"This isn't a breakthrough...it's a stalling tactic."

I couldn't agree more. The nuclear test by North Korea was a set up for the West to offer more aid (spelled money) to Kim Jong Ill. If we do agree to pay this aid it will just lead to more extortion IMHO.

[billiamy]

I wonder if the current sKerry non-apology will take up too much time in the media, giving them a way to ignore this significant victory of Bush's foreign policy, to the dismay of the Klintoon fans saying we need to talk to them one-on-one like sending Maddy Albright to toast with "Dear Leader".