Posted on 09/02/2007 8:01:34 AM PDT by RDTF
And we can believe them because the North Koreans have always acted truthfully and in good faith, huh...
So N Korea, one of the original Axis of Evil, has through talks decided to dismantle its nuclear program. Imagine that. Not bombing a nation can actually get the results you want....you mean talking to nations over time can get them to come around to another point of view?!? Well we need to get them to ramp their programs right up. Else the foreign policy of pre-emptive strikes may look ridiculous..
The BUSH LEGACY continues to grow.
I wonder who is really in control of North Korea with its leader still very ill, and I equally ask the same question about Cuba?
I will stick with a wait and see attitude on that.
This is significant progress no matter how you slice it. Christopher Hill has been our man in North Korea for a while now, and he’s definitely the right man for the job.
I think a couple of factors are at play here.
The North Koreans burned a lot of favors when they fizzled their nuclear warhead test. They proved how incompetent they are and lost any advantage they might have had. Previously they had seriously embarrassed themselves and their sponsors, the Communist Chinese, by launching an ICBM over Japan several years ago, among other unsavory activities that are too long to list...
The country is reeling right now after yet another round of devastating weather and poor crop harvests, so they cannot feed themselves without extensive Foreign assistance. The country is bankrupt and cannot even generate enough electricity to turn the lights on at night, much less heat anyone’s home during their extremely long and cold winters.
Finally, the Chinese Communists are hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, and they are under enormous pressure to make sure that they are not embarrassed while the whole world is watching. China very much knows what side it’s bread is buttered, and the United States has been pressuring them for years to pressure their sockpuppet in North Korea, to get him to the bargaining table with the round-eyes, and that steady pressure from the US has finally succeeded in a very big way.
But since this marks an enormous milestone by the Bush Administration, and is in fact an outright major Foreign Policy achievement for the President himself, I don’t expect the media to give it a lot of notice.
Worth keeping an eye on this week though, and for the next few months to see exactly what the NoKo’s have been up to all these years. Nobody had really seen what actually goes on up there except in very small snippets that were smuggled out at great risk, so if things really do open up, I think what people finally are forced to see will be shocking...
People will certainly wonder anew what it was that Madeleine Korbel Albright found so amusing when she was clinking wine glasses with Kim not all that long ago...
Developing...
This was no victory. Time will show.
Tiger, check this out!!
The only “victory” here is for Kim Jong Ill’s accountants. Other than that, its simply another example of the Bush Administration flushing taxpayer money down the toilet.
China probably views Kim's nuclear weapons the same way we view China's products -- cheap and flimsy...
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