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"US Diplomat Residing in N. Korean Capital (S Korean Conservative Daily) Chosun Says"(APPEASEMENT)
Chosun Ilbo (Conservative Daily in Korea) in English ^ | 26 November 2007 | Heejin Koo

Posted on 11/25/2007 4:59:27 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo

U.S. Diplomat Is Residing in North Korean Capital, Chosun Says

By Heejin Koo

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. diplomat has been residing in North Korea since mid-November, acting as a liaison between the governments of Washington and Pyongyang, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing an unidentified official in Washington.

The presence of the unidentified U.S. envoy, who is staying at the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, is an indication of improved relations between the two nations since North Korea pledged to disable its Yongbyon nuclear plant by the end of this year, the Seoul-based daily said.

The U.S. plans to send more envoys to reside in Pyongyang in preparation for normalized relations between the two nations, Chosun said. The two countries agreed to normalize ties under an accord reached in February aimed at scrapping North Korea's nuclear program that was also signed by South Korea, Russia, China and Japan.

North Korea began disabling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, fuel-reprocessing plants and a fuel fabrication plant under the supervision of U.S. inspectors earlier this month. Kim Jong Il's regime has pledged to complete the process and provide a list of its nuclear programs by Dec. 31.

To contact the reporter on this story: Heejin Koo in Seoul at hjkoo@bloomberg.net


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: albright; blackmailed; bushwacked; chiapet; chrishill; clintonite; condi; deal; dprk; foolish; kimjongil; korea; lameduck; legacy; naive; nobelpeaceprize; northkorea; nukesinsyria; pyongyang; regacy; shellgame
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The "fix is in", folks.

Here is the critical access point to the "New York Route".

You have been reading about the increasing appeasement and abject, naive idiocy of the Bush Administration embracing the Madeline Albright approach to Kim Jong il, here, regularly on FREE REPUBLIC.

The Koryo Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea...

Pyongyang Koryo Hotel Changgwang Street, Tonghung-dong, Central District, Pyongyang Telephone: 011-850-2-321-7851

1 posted on 11/25/2007 4:59:30 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SevenofNine; Steel Wolf; DTogo; Ronin; American in Israel

Ping!


2 posted on 11/25/2007 5:00:14 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: Jet Jaguar; BallyBill; GOPJ; nuconvert; gaijin; cva66snipe
Ping.

It's apparantly TRUE.

3 posted on 11/25/2007 5:04:34 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

BTTT


4 posted on 11/25/2007 5:06:58 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Cicero; Candor7

alert


5 posted on 11/25/2007 5:07:14 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

If you can stream WABC, John Bolton is on with John Batchelor now


6 posted on 11/25/2007 5:10:59 PM PST by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: SoCalPol
Someone should call in to John Batchelor right now, then, and report this live on his show. (Although I am sure Bolton knows) but 99% of America does not (yet).
7 posted on 11/25/2007 5:14:11 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: SoCalPol
I am listening to Bolton RIGHT NOW live online, on WABC, it is a good stream. I think after the commerical break (8:17 p.m. Eastern, 5:17 p.m. Pacific) he is really going to tear into the State Department!

Thanks for the heads up.

Let us see if they take calls. If possible, I or someone else might get in to ask the question.

8 posted on 11/25/2007 5:18:04 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
The most probable and one of the more dangerous outcomes for this area is the collapse of the North Korean government which will result in the mother of all humanitarian assistance missions.

Conditions inside North Korea make most sub-Sahara African nations look like idyllic paradises.

If the North Koreans ever decided to invade the South, their advance would be halted by the first supermarket.

While I remain convinced that the State Department is the natural home of the traitors and incompetent in government service; I would rather we have someone on the inside talking with North Korea and proactively planning how to take care of the population in place instead of waiting for a starving horde to start moving south.

Just MHO...

9 posted on 11/25/2007 5:18:11 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (The facts of life are conservative -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

There is usually a live thread for Batchelors’ program but not up yet.
He has Bolton on from time to time. After the break Bolton will be back on.

this guy is special.


10 posted on 11/25/2007 5:19:48 PM PST by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Not entirely sure why all the negativity here. Unlike Clinton, Bush stuck to the multi-lateral talks route and it appears to be bearing fruit.

We have inspectors on the ground at NORK nuke facilities (yes, they tried to dump them off to Syria, but we’ve all seen how well THAT went.)

Carrots, sticks and pressure from China, Russia and Japan...

We know how quickly commie countries implode when exposed to the outside.


11 posted on 11/25/2007 5:22:10 PM PST by Philistone (If someone tells you it's for the children, he believes that YOU are a child.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

Thank you.


12 posted on 11/25/2007 5:22:41 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Ooooooh...! THE LEGACY...!


13 posted on 11/25/2007 5:28:26 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Philistone
The approach of Bush Administration in 2007 is now fundamentally and virtually indistinguishable from Clinton/Carter in 1999.

There was no agreement to dismantle and end the DPRK nuke effort, only an effort to "disable" it temporarily, in return for massive food and aid. The State Department keeps shifting their final positions, and gets more and more to the point of what the DPRK wants. They had initially insisted that it be disabled so that it would take several years to restart, they then caved and made it one year, now they have caved further and it is only a matter of months, according to most analysts, that the DPRK can RESTART their facilities. And, we have only stipulated the facilities that we know about. They have merely shifted resources, production, R/D, etc. to other locations within the DPRK as well as to third countries, i.e. Syria.

It would be the heighth of hypocrisy for me to critize Clinton/Albright/Richardson/Pritchard here on FR in 1999 and 2000, and then give the Bush Administration a "pass" in 2007, for esentially for doing the same thing, because they, well, er, are "the Bush Administration".

Sorry, cannot play such a partisan game with such a critical issue.

14 posted on 11/25/2007 5:29:20 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: gaijin

zannenn desuga, demo sou kamoshirenai....


15 posted on 11/25/2007 5:30:51 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Just great, Bolton ends with the North Korean - Syrian connection.


16 posted on 11/25/2007 5:32:57 PM PST by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
信じられますか?最悪。。!
17 posted on 11/25/2007 5:43:13 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

my sentiments exactly. It’s like “sheesh!, what’s next?!”


18 posted on 11/25/2007 5:50:14 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: gaijin
Since the outcome is already decided, they are just maneuvering, they are just process-oriented, and going forward to that future place in time, reading from the same sheet of paper, with these milestones in place. If State pukes found an absolutely bald face DRPK obfuscation and intransigence in the process (which they will), they are SOOOO salivating for a diplomatic deal, they would sweep it under the rug and continue

Bad things is, NORTHIES KNOW THIS TOO, BY NOW.

Talk about a weak position.

Sucks to be a negotiator and know the other side knows how desperate you are for a deal-at-all-costs and that you have no intention of "walking away from the table" even if they serve up a heaping, hot bowl of cow crap for you.

19 posted on 11/25/2007 5:54:07 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

>>It’s apparantly TRUE.<<

Since we know there have been talks in NK, why is it surprising that we have somebody there?


20 posted on 11/25/2007 5:55:33 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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