"Where Maddie? I wuv Maddie wong time!"
Posted on 09/03/2007 7:26:21 AM PDT by maquiladora
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea said Monday that the United States has decided to remove it from a list of states sponsoring terrorism -- a crucial step towards the normalisation of relations between the two countries.
The US decision came at a weekend meeting between the chief nuclear negotiators of the two countries in Geneva, a foreign ministry spokesman told the official Korean Central News Agency.
"Both sides discussed the issue of taking practical measures to neutralise the existing nuclear facilities in the DPRK (North Korea) within this year and agreed on them," the spokesman said.
"In return for this the US decided to take such political and economic measures for compensation as delisting the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and lifting all sanctions that have been applied according to the Trading with the Enemy Act," he said.
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What about the counterfeiting?
That leaves Iran...
Ridiculous.
Let’s get out of Korea.
Makes me at least ask, what’re we doing there ?
I believe that foggy bottom is just that...foggy.
If, on the other hand, we in fact threatened them into real action...then I would wait at least a year or longer and verify that everything that we have DEMANDED has been accomplished before making a single economic move like this.
*slaps* Forehead.. What next, granting them “most favored trading” status?
"Where Maddie? I wuv Maddie wong time!"
Here is another article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/world/asia/03nkorea.html
If the North Koreans meet the schedule and disable their equipment, it would be a major victory for the Bush administration, at a time when it is eager to claim progress on some diplomatic front to offset its problems in Iraq. Whether to offer the North rewards, including oil and, eventually, removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and diplomatic recognition, has been the subject of a six-year struggle within the Bush administration.
We didn't remove them from the terror list, we threw a carrot out there to see if they take it. Nothing in this says we actually pulled them off the list nor will actually pull them off the list even if they meet these demands.
Ummm... I think the crucial words here are “North Korea said...”. Seems to me those words are generally followed by fiction.
Think back to Madeline Albright arguing ridiculously that Sadaam was contained. If Condi pulls this off and ends the Korean war with a peace treaty, they will have to give her the Noble peace price, and that will really smart.
You read it here on FR.
The State Department is in complete control on this one.
The Bush Administration has been completely routed.
Japanese TV (TV Tokyo) on live TV just about six minutes ago, reported that indeed the US has promised and agreed to remove the D.P.R.K. from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism. The Japanese was clear and emphatic that this has been promised and will now be done.
BS. The buck stops at the WH. This is more of a political decision than a bureaucratic one. Bush wants this as part of his legacy. The idea that the State Department is an independent actor who can dictate policy to the WH is pure crap. It is the other way around.
We didn’t take them off the list, nor did we say we would. We simply said if they met all of our demands we may consider lifting some sanctions. It is NK that is spreading the BS that we took them off the list.
Well, it looks like Maddie Halfbright was right all along.
All we needed to do is buy them a beer, or a scotch on the rocks, and shake hands, and then everything will be OK.
WTF is going on with this administration?
Nothing, the article is based on NK's comments, not reality. We didn't lift any sanctions, we only threw a carrot out saying if they met all our demands we may consider lifting some sanctions..
I really wish people would do their own fact checking instead of taking any article at face value.
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