N. Korea Says (It) May Slow Nuclear Disablement (See What Happens When You APPEASE!!??)

Kyodo News via Reuters ^ | 27 December 2007 | Kyodo News via Reuters

[AmericanInTokyo]

TOKYO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - North Korea may slow the pace of disablement of its nuclear facilities, blaming a delay in the delivery of energy aid promised under a disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported, quoting a Pyongyang official.

"There is a delay in the implementation of economic compensation obligations to be undertaken by the other countries in the six-party talks," Hyun Hak Bong, deputy director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's American affairs bureau, was quoted as saying late on Wednesday.

"We have no choice but to take measures to adjust" he added, referring to the pace of disablement of the nuclear facilities.

Hyun was speaking after talks with Chinese and South Korean diplomats in Pyongyang, aimed at clarifying details of the six-party agreement to provide North Korea with fuel oil in exchange for denuclearisation, Kyodo said.

North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear facilities and declare all its nuclear activities by the end of the year, in return for fuel and diplomatic incentives, under the disarmament deal reached at six-party talks involving United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.

Shipments of oil to North Korea began months ago, but there have been delays for technical reasons, Kyodo said.

"This is a purely technical issue," Kyodo quoted Hyun as saying about the slowing of disablement work, adding that he indicated Pyongyang does not plan to abandon the process.

If Pyongyang gives a full accounting of its nuclear programmes, the United States is expected to drop it from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, which imposes economic and other sanctions on the secretive state.

(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, Surprise, Surprise.

The imbeciles in the US State Department which submitted to that outlaw, blackmailing North Korea and it's delaying, stalling, run the clock out, obfuscating and shakedown tactics, should be fired. Can you hear this, CONDOLEEZA RICE? Do you hear, PRESIDENT BUSH?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[SevenofNine]

DUH you knew this going happen

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, Surprise, Surprise.

Dittoes. Kim will stall for the next year hoping to get a 'rat president-elect to play with. Meanwhile Bush and Rice will be too busy chasing the umpteenth iteration of the so-called "mideast peace process." With the usual results.

[OCC]

"There is a delay in the implementation of economic compensation obligations to be undertaken by the other countries in the six-party talks," Hyun Hak Bong, deputy director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's American affairs bureau, was quoted as saying late on Wednesday.

FR delegate Phuck Hu was quoted as saying....

[squidly]

I don’t want to sound like I’m taking up for those Stalinist/commies, but if we’re living up to our side of a bargain with them, it’s the first time I can remember.

[TomGuy]

Team Bush 2 are following the same patterns the Clinton admin did.

They went through similar with N Korea and with the Palestinians.

Those rogue states/groups are expert at hoodwinking the UN and the USA.

[hextic]

Is it somehow unfair for the DPRK to expect us to follow our end of the bargian?

Would you not do the same, if you decided on an exchange, but the other party was dragging its feet?

[AmericanInTokyo]

If I were more or less uninitiated to this long standing and complex issue, and saw it in such simplistic terms, I suppose I may be prompted to look at it that way.

[Nextrush]

Japan was never happy with this deal to begin with.

But lets get to the point.

In 2008, an election year. everything has to look good.

No issues for the Democrats to use in the election like Iran, North Korea or Iraq.

Do you get the picture.

I think the official spin will be that talking to them and appeasing them on all fronts will deny Democrats issues in 2008.

Some may applaud this “great political strategy” as people wake up to realize what’s going on and become angry.

The old containment-appeasment strategy with the Soviet Union has come back to haunt us in dealing with what used to be called “The Axis of Evil.”

But appeasement stinks every time and fails everywhere its tried.

This administration (George W. Bush) is no exception.

Condi Rice is old Henry Kissinger in a skirt.

An appeaser of our enemies.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I refer you to Post #8 on this thread, squidly.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You DO know how the game is played—and what is really going on, now don’t you Nextrush? ;-)

[Cementjungle]

Those rogue states/groups are expert at hoodwinking the UN and the USA.

It's so easy a caveman could do it.

[Christopher Lincoln]

How do slow what isn't happening in the first place?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, indeed, TG.

The FIX is "in" as they say.

Don't expect anything out of this current Administration in the next 13 months that is in line with their earlier (fantastic) "Axis of Evil" policy of isolation, strangulation, threats of military force, and toppling (decapitation) of such cancerous regimes. It is purely State Department territory now, and one of abject appeasement and coddling. Kim knows it. That is why he jacks us around, whereas he was deep underground for 45 days like a shaking rodent during Iraqi Freedom, in the good old days, when the adults were in charge in D.C.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Exactly.

[Nextrush]

I’m just reading what I’ve read.

Barry McCaffrey, one of Clinton’s generals is applauding our diplomatic “outreach” to Syria and Iran in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week.

On Christmas Eve, the story comes out that Iran has been helping quiet down Shiite militias in Iraq.

Regarding the NK deal Ambassador Schieffer was reported some time back trying to contact the president expressing Japan’s disappointment with the deal.

[Nextrush]

And let me add this.

My “namesake” may be one of the spinners when conservatives realize the Bush Administration is doing with terrorists and rogue states what Johnson and Nixon did with Communism.

Anger could hurt the GOP with a backlash and it will need to be tamped down.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Correct. As a matter of fact, US Ambassador to Japan Schieffer DID send Bush (via Condi) an urgent cable stating the bad result that could be anticipated in Japan if the US actually goes ahead and (as Bush seems to be thinking to do) takes North Korea off the US Terrorist List.

Here is in fact the Japanese news dispatch (25 October):

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/world/korea/071025/kor0710251216001-n2.htm

This whole situation is reprehensible. Anybody who criticized the Clintonites for pulling these stunts with North Korea in their final days, must necessarily be critical of Bush 8 years later.