Posted on 10/03/2007 11:06:39 PM PDT by InShanghai
SEOUL (Reuters) - The leaders of North and South Korea pledged on Thursday to bring peace to the Cold War's last frontier by seeking talks with China and the United States to formally end the 1950-1953 Korean War.
The agreement came at the end of only the second summit between the divided Koreas whose war ended with an armistice not a peace treaty.
"North and South Korea shared the view they must end the current armistice and build a permanent peace regime," South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said in a joint statement at the end of their three-day meeting in Pyongyang.
The agreement also called for setting up the first regular freight train service since the war, meetings of ministers and defense officials as well as establishing a cooperation zone around a contested sea border on the west of the peninsula.
The armistice that concluded their fratricidal battle was signed by China, North Korea and U.S.-led United Nations forces, but not by South Korea.
U.S. President George W. Bush has said he can discuss a peace treaty once the North scraps its nuclear weapons program.
Giving a lift to the talks, China announced late on Wednesday that North Korea had agreed with regional powers to disable its nuclear facilities -- a source of atomic weapons material -- by the end of the year, a major step in normalizing relations with the outside world.
The two agreed to work together to implement that pact.
Roh will return to South Korea by road later in the day.
(With additional reporting by Jack Kim)
Translation: China has cut Kimmy off, so now Kimmy needs a new source of supply.
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I think “Kimmy” has finally caved in to the wave of change that’s happening in Asia. All those visits to China has shown what “opening up” and letting market driven economics take over has done for the Chinese elites. IMO, it seems he wants a piece of that action.
A picture that is worth a thousand words for sure!
North Korea must be an astronomer’s paradise - no light pollution!
Bump.
Kimmy Kommie is getting 50,000 tons of oil, gratis. That's tons not barrels.
Who paid for it? Did Kommie get it up front before inspections? Klinton fell for that trick a long time ago.
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He is getting paranoid against his inner circle of freaks to the point that he don’t know who he should have kill who anymore.
He’s getting oil, but nothing else. He pissed off the Chinese, his main supplier, by not returning the last dozen or so supply trains they sent him - so they won’t be sending him anything else.
If this is correct, then worrisome indeed!
However this may be a crack in the door that's needed to effect change. Is it possible that Kim has taken a different path?
When you so ronery that China not send you any more trains, find yourself new sucker to send you trains.
Bump for index
I'm fine with that.
We ought to let South Korea know we're not obligated to send troops back if they ending up falling for a dirty Commie trick.
... and don't be thinking you're coming here en masse in a boatlift if the Korean peninsula plunges into chaos and warfare.
Sure, sign a 'peace agreement' with those psychos. Whatever happens to you, happens to you.
I hope in his old age and lack of good heir that he’ll decide this has been a mess and do the right thing.
One can hope.
I think Der Leader knows his time on earth is short. I can’t think of anything else that would cause this change. Kind like the day Castro finally kicks the bucket.
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