Posted on 07/14/2007 10:58:29 AM PDT by HAL9000
NORTH KOREA SAYS IT HAS SHUT DOWN YONGBYON NUCLEAR REACTOR-US STATE DEPARTMENT
(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...
My first thought, Reuters will bury it on a Saturday.
It will be a little blurb in the NY times on page 11.
How much did it cost to get them to comply, I wonder.
This is an absolutely meaningless statement unless they allow open inspection to verify it.
Does any of this have anything to do with the failing health of Kim Jung Il, and a struggle among those who want to succeed him?
Or is it just all smoke and mirrors, as usual?
It will be back on next week if the US doesn’t give millions of dollars in aid to the North Koreans
your thoughts?
Maybe we should get some verification first?
NK is not the most trustworthy source on its nukes, or the weather, or night versus day, or up and down, or anything else rooted in objective reality.
SCORE ANOTHER ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!
WAIT...are we believing them???
Foggy Bottom + any enemy of the US. Is that a rhetorical question?
Or is it just all smoke and mirrors, as usual?
Yes.
We both know with regard to the MSM...Of course not. Absolutely no credit will be given to him.
Will the WH tout this sucess? Probably not as well.
Anybody know how this is going to be verified? Or are we just going to take their word for it and write them another check?
IAEA inspectors are on-site for verification.
I don’t believe these people as far as I could throw a main battle tank. If they did bring it down it will be back up in a month or less. The only way to ensure it stays down is to knock it down.
presumably this means they have enough plutonium to process to meet their ‘sea of fire’ quota.
That is my personal suspicion, but of course I have no way of knowing for certain. I have no access to any inside information, just the publicly available sources.
I simply no longer believe anything I hear from any government or public officials without proof. That caution applies whether we're talking about Kim Jong Il, OR President Bush.
I have moved on from Ronald Reagan's once plausibly reasonable "Trust, But Verify" dictum to "Don't Trust, Verify and Punish If Necessary"...
I imagine thiat was part of the agreement reached with China. You’re right, President Bush has done well on this, refusing to deal directly with NK (despite all the hand-wringing by the media) and bringing China into the fray. You’re also right about no credit going to Bush. In six months, they will say it was Hillary who made it all happen.
Why is this headline in caps? It is fantasy, not news. Might as well say “TOOTH FAIRY IS REAL!”
If we can verify this it is certainly very good news. I always thought the Bush strategy with NK would be a winner.
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