Posted on 12/28/2006 10:23:54 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il ‘Told Top Nuke Negotiator to Be Confident’
Usually reliable insiders on Thursday claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told the nation's top nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-gwan the North can relax after developing nuclear weapons and to conduct negotiations with the U.S. in a confident manner. The sources in Seoul and Beijing said Kim would have said something along the lines of, “We don't have to worry about our security any more. There won't be a war. You go and see whether the U.S. is really ready to be our friend,” before sending him off to six-party talks about the nation’s nuclear program on Dec 18-22.
They said Kim Kye-gwan’s unprecedented English-language Q&A session after the six-party talks ended also happened at the direct orders of Kim Jong-il. The North Korean vice foreign minister took the opportunity to stress that North Korea is now a nuclear power and demanded mutual nuclear disarmament talks with the U.S. He again complained of Washington's “hostile” policy toward his country and its sanctions on the North's accounts in the Macau-based Banco Delta Asia. At the Dec. 22 press conference, he took a grand total of four questions from reporters.
At this point, our best option is to make Chia Head overplay his card, feeling he no longer has anything to fear.
Ping!
He going be one roaney dicator I think China getting tired of his crap
He simply blew up 500 lbs. of TNT. All gov't know that this is a farce but are treating it as reality for leverage.
I would love to find out what exactly transpired in the test.
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