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North Korea Nuclear Talks Break Down
AP ^ | Mar 22 12:31 PM US/Eastern | By BO-MI LIM

Posted on 03/22/2007 1:02:28 PM PDT by ryan71

Negotiations on halting North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly Thursday, with the country's chief envoy to the talks flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; korea; northkorea; nukes; proliferation
Let the bombing begin!
1 posted on 03/22/2007 1:02:31 PM PDT by ryan71
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To: ryan71

I'm shocked.


2 posted on 03/22/2007 1:05:52 PM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: ryan71
North Korea Nuclear Talks Break Down

Standing head.

3 posted on 03/22/2007 1:06:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (When I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth)
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To: ryan71
Didn't see THAT coming.

I guess John Bolton isn't so dumb after all.
4 posted on 03/22/2007 1:07:33 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: ryan71
NYT Headline:

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS BREAK DOWN
Women, Minorities Disproportionately Affected, Experts Say

5 posted on 03/22/2007 1:08:40 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (When I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth)
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To: ryan71

What a surprise (yawn).


6 posted on 03/22/2007 1:08:55 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: ryan71
Unlike the Clinton "feel-good" policy toward North Korean WMD development, the Bush administration will not look the other way when the NK's cheat.
7 posted on 03/22/2007 1:15:45 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: ryan71
Negotiations on halting North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly Thursday, with the country's chief envoy to the talks flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.

Well, let's see. North Korea is the worlds largest counterfeiter of US currency.

Shouldn't be much of a dispute.

Tell Macau to give us the money or be bomb you into oblivion, and quit doing business with counterfeiting crooks.

8 posted on 03/22/2007 1:17:51 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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what? the Norks negotiating in bad faith? I'm absolutely stuned that this could happen.

Beeber bump

9 posted on 03/22/2007 1:19:24 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
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To: RedEyeJack
the Bush administration will not look the other way when the NK's cheat.

Are you being sarcastic? It looks to me like the NK's have been playing us like a fiddle.

I stand by the President. But I keep waiting for the "or what". The U.S. will not tolerate Iran's nuclear development......or what? We will not allow North Korea to conduct nuclear weapons tests......or what? The strongest action the President seems to want to take is to refer them to the U.N. for sanctions that Russia and China will argue against and eventually stall.
10 posted on 03/22/2007 1:20:22 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: untrained skeptic
Negotiations on halting North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly Thursday, with the country's chief envoy to the talks flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.

Well, let's see. North Korea is the worlds largest counterfeiter of US currency


Why is this an issue? Can't North Korea just "make more"?
11 posted on 03/22/2007 1:22:05 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: ryan71
Time to withhold single-malts and porno flicks from being imported into DPNK....'lil Kimmy will go nuts and have his guys back at the talks in two days.

Or, better yet, flatten Pyongyang and let the Chinese clean up the mess.

12 posted on 03/22/2007 1:22:07 PM PDT by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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Ooooh. Big surprise.

Why do we negotiate with someone we KNOW doesn't negotiate in good faith?

Cut off the food. Cut off the oil. Mine his ports. Let the Gargoyle and the slaves freeze and starve in the dark.
13 posted on 03/22/2007 1:22:26 PM PDT by Little Ray (Proud to be one of "...the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters...")
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>>> ...country's chief envoy to the talks flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.

<<< Perhaps we send over William Jefferson, Congressman from Louisiana, to talk to them about how to resolve frozen money.

14 posted on 03/22/2007 1:26:20 PM PDT by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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This round of talks has been dogged by troubles since it started Monday, with Pyongyang refusing to take part for two days because of problems over the transfer of $25 million in North Korean funds frozen since 2005 at Banco Delta Asia in Macau under pressure from the United States. "This round of talks started with the BDA problem and ended with the BDA problem," Japanese envoy Kenichiro Sasae said. Banco Delta Asia was blacklisted by Washington on suspicion the funds were connected to money-laundering or counterfeiting. The North boycotted the international nuclear talks for more than a year over the issue.

North Korean funny money ping


15 posted on 03/22/2007 1:33:52 PM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: ryan71

Anyone believing they were for real to begin with is an idiot.


16 posted on 03/22/2007 2:37:56 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: ryan71; Constitutionalist Conservative; Gator113; Zhang Fei; DanielLongo; Tamar1973; Dr. Marten; ...
Asia pinglist

If you want on or off the list, go to the link for instructions. Otherwise, it won't be guaranteed that you will be put on or taken off (it still won't be 100% guaranteed, anyway, but will be much more highly probable).

17 posted on 03/22/2007 3:09:49 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: RedEyeJack

We were blocking access to $25 million of their money and recently released that money to them as a pre-condition of the meeting. The $25 million was being blocked because of NKs involvement in counterfeiting our currency. Some thought it was a mistake to release the money ... it looks as if they were correct.


18 posted on 03/22/2007 3:37:04 PM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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