N Korea threatens to scrap nuke deal (don't make demands or ask questions)

NORTH Korea's military warned today that a deal to disarm its nuclear programme could be scrapped if the US keeps "pressurising" the country, the official KCNA news agency reported.

The North will step up efforts to protect itself from a "US nuclear attack and pre-emptive strike" if the US keeps "pressurising the DPRK under the pretext of the nuclear issue," it said.

"In that case, it is as clear as noonday that neither the implementation of the February 13 agreement nor success of the six-party talks will be possible," the military said.

UN weapons inspectors are expected to return to North Korea on Saturday amid hopes that the secretive regime would begin shutting a key nuclear facility as part of the February deal worked out in six-nation talks.

The North, which carried out its first test of an atomic bomb last year, has repeatedly said that it needs nuclear weapons to deter the US from a pre-emptive attack aimed at toppling its regime.

This disgusts me. John Bolton warned the Bush administration and Condi about making deals w/N. Korea who would never live up to its part of any agreement. And the Bush Admin had proof of this by looking at what happened when Bill Clinton made his deal w/N. Korea and they broke every promise. So what does the Bush Admin do? The same thing. What fools. Now that N. Korea has the money they wanted wired to them, they will now stick it to us by not keeping their end of the bargain, as usual. Yet another reason amongst many to further dislike Bush and his all compassion and no conservatism administration. What a bunch of naive dummies. And he (Bush) keeps on using our taxpayer dollars to dole out like candy to his pet causes (likes Aids in Africa, money down a rathole). Geez.....

In my opinion, the BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILURE in its North Korean policy, (which started about one year ago)should indeed be an immediate top issue in the 2008 Republican Presidential primaries and debate.

I want to see Hunter, Tancredo, Romney, Thompson, whomever, elevate the issue--and draw a distinction between their campaign and the White House!

It is so fundamentally important.

In the space of Bush's two terms (6.5 years), North Korea went on to develop at least 10 nuclear weapons, which there is no doubt that they have, as opposed to phantom nukes which never turned up in Iraq and will never turn up IMHO. We focused on the wrong enemy in a geopolitical sense, and ended up getting our hands tied in the Middle East, so that Kim Jong il knew it and was able to make progress building up his own arsenal and stringing us along in foolish "SIX PARTY TALKS" which the Bush Administration/Condi fully bought into.

Again, this needs to be a MAJOR GOP Primary issue. the Democrats cannot bring it up because they did the same thing. But an EXCELLENT GOP 2008 Presidential candidate can sound a complete break from the Clinton/Bush approach on North Korea, IMHO.

Here, below, is North Korea speaking just TODAY, through their unofficial spokesmen. We can see clearly that DPRK won this round, Bush/Condi lost, and they are digging in their heels now that they have both their money and their nukes.

For us to think they would do otherwise, would be the heighth of naivety.

"The net outcome of Kim Jong-il's two-tier military-first policy is a closer North-South Korea interchange and cooperation in a virtual commuter marriage in an environment of reduced tension. Visiting Pyongyang, helping compatriots in North Korea and inaugurating joint ventures in the North are now in fashion in South Korea. A poll shows that two of every three South Koreans say they would side with the North in case of war between North Korea and the US. Kim Jong-il is well aware that the existence of diplomatic relations with Baghdad dismally failed to prevent the US from invading Iraq on framed-up pretexts and did not serve to convince Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, India or Pakistan to give up their own independent nuclear force. To be frank, the North Korean leader is free from the slightest illusion about an unworkable multilateral security guarantee as its two major rewriters, China and Russia, failed to prevent the US from launching an invasion of Iraq. It is important to remember that no European and North American countries insisted that North Korea dismantle its nuclear-weapons program before and after their establishment of diplomatic relations with it. Moreover, the nuclear test prompted no European country to cut off diplomatic relations with North Korea. All indications suggest that the US is out of sync with the rest of the world regarding North Korea. It is all too obvious that the US promise of a North Korea-US peace treaty, full diplomatic relations and an end to criminalizing North Korea are an insufficient incentive to bring the North Korean leader to consider opting out of the elite nuclear club. Kim Jong-il has every legitimate reason to stress that depending on future US policy behavior, a reunified Korea - a hard fact years away - will likely be a nuclear-weapons-free zone. He will keep intact the hard-won nuclear deterrence before full mutual confidence is fostered between North Korea and the US that is spelled out in a peace treaty and full diplomatic relations. Kim Myong-chol is author of a number of books and papers in Korean, Japanese and English on North Korea. He is executive director of the Center for Korean-American Peace. He has a PhD from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Academy of Social Sciences and is often called an "unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea. "

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