"Are you ronry too?"
This may help answer the growing chorus of Freepers' "Whaaat??? Say AGAIN?!", issued in sheer disbelief and astonishment.
MUST READ!
Who will take it on and open this up for wider debate and scrutiny?
Hunter? Thompson? Tancredo? Romney?
No! As long as Kim stays in power, the Norks will play games called 'negotiations', and do as they please.
It will take outside intervention to kick them into the modern world community. The same can be said about most of the muslims, too.
It's curious that the N.K. and Cuban relic-commies haven't just been blockaded into dying by now .......................... FRegards
Now they got caught with their hands iin the Syrian /Iran cookie jar, supplying plutonium to them , according to Israelis post op intel on Septembers bombing of a weapons plant in Syria, where damage assessment by IDF commandos revealed Iranian and Norkie tech corpses in the rubble.
Kim Jong Il knows that this is his last chance with Bush, but then his strategy may be just as the article says. He wants to extend the negotiations until a new administration takes office. He thnks that the Dems under "It Takes a Village" will be suckers the same way Madelaine Albright , America's worst Sec State ever, was.
The USA has turned into a Banana Republic on foreign policy, simply because of the death of any bi-partisan policy on dealing with America's enemies.
And the Democrat party is to blame.
I have a new “peace plan” for North Korea: how ‘bout if we waterboard the pathetic little troll from Pyongyang until he begs to be allowed to destroy all of his WMD programs, disband his military, police and spy services, and then he welcomes Korean unification under the governance of the government in Seoul?????
OK, I guess we can’t so easily get ahold of him for the waterboarding part, but I like the rest anyway.....
This article is essentially based on the material from a huge flop “The Confidante” by Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler. They keep rehashing their wishful thinking and spin their opinions as the facts and, unfortunately, by repeating essentially the same story over and over again (”Big Lie” Theory comes to mind) convinced some people of it. And that’s despite overwhelming success of six-party talks on North Korea by shifting the burden for the “problem child” of the region to the country the “child” entirely depends on - China, and shifting the most of the rest of our burden on other players in the region who are now on our side.
Here is the Kessler’s book reviews from sympathetic AFP and AP from last September :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890230/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890353/posts
The only game left for Kim is to try and survive until possible Democratic administration with which he can try playing the same bilateral talks (as Biden and other Dem idiots have suggested) that have failed (Clinton / Albright) and are guaranteed to fail because they provide no leverage for US.
Amazing how, using the media, they can spin their failures into successes, and our successes into looking like failures... Easy formula - repeat it enough times and people will start to believe it. So many people, even on FR, started to believe that we were losing “war in Iraq” because of constant repetition until it was no longer tenable.
Barring Democratic administration, North Korea’s days as viable nuclear proliferation threat are over. It’s not surprising that Syria’s nuclear plant development was bombed shortly after we had our “boots on the ground” in Pyongyang.
Our biggest challenge on Korean peninsula will be managing eventual unification so combined Korea would not become a socialist, China leaning state.
bttt
As per usual AmericanInTokyo, you have nailed it. The Russians seemed like they were showing signs of cooperating with the USA on pressuring Iran until the Israeli bombing of the Syrian ‘weapons’ site on Septemer 7th (or was it 6th?). In any event, after the incident Putin came out and all but told Bush he will back Iran’s continued development of nukes. I have a feeling this about face from Putin is what startled the President out of all of these things surrounding NK, Iran and Syria.
It has revealed Russia’s bad intentions in promoting Iran to build nukes. No doubt these nukes will be used against Israel, the USA and/or the West. Even if they don’t use them a successful nuke test will plummet the global markets sharply downward. This would tickle Russia pink as it means financial collapse of the West and an opening for Russian ambition. Russia is playing game, set match on the dominant position of controlling the worlds economy by controlling the oil. They are not there yet, we have 120,000 troops and a carrier fleet in there way. But the USA has already stated we will be reducing troop deployments in 2008. I think in two or three years we are going to see some really ugly developments unfolding. Our DOD and on the ground intelligence had best get further prepared and FAST considering our policy now appears to be containment. Bad, bad strategy in my opinion.