Posted on 12/12/2008 10:53:24 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea Doesn't Agree To Written Nuclear Pact
Earlier Assurances Contradicted, U.S. Says
By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 12, 2008; A22
North Korea balked yesterday at agreeing to a written plan for verifying its nuclear claims, handing President Bush a diplomatic defeat and the incoming Obama administration a new diplomatic headache.
Bush took a gamble two months ago when he agreed to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, based on spoken assurances from Pyongyang that it had agreed to a verification plan. At the time, there were signs North Korea was planning to restart its shuttered nuclear plant or even conduct a nuclear test, and administration officials were desperate to avoid a crisis in the final months of Bush's presidency.
U.S. officials at the time asserted that North Korea had privately bent on two key issues: potential access to facilities not included in Pyongyang's nuclear declaration and permission for inspectors to take environmental samples from facilities to determine how much plutonium had been produced. The State Department publicly distributed a statement titled "U.S.-North Korean Understandings on Verification" that listed six key points, but it declined to release the text of the claimed agreement.
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Chris Hill, Condi Rice, and GW Bush are bad enough in this regard. Now we have even worse crews coming in: Zero's
Ping!
And who exactly is leading North Korea right now?
As if it would matter if they did.
Perhaps a radical suggestion here...but just plain stop noticing North Korea.
Stop all negotiations. Don’t allow any US state department weenie even bring them up in conversation. If some reporter asks questions...respond “we have nothing to contribute to”.
Then I’d turn around to South Korea and start a three-year plan to bring out all US troops. Either they build up to take our place or they come to a totally different conclusion.
Face it....in a confrontation today...a war would take five weeks max, and their entire military would be dissolved away into nothing. Every strategy they have...is from the 1950s book on tactics. Even the mighty Iraqi Army was more prepared for us...than these guys. But why waste a moment on this debate? Either they are stupid enough to advance across the border or they aren’t. We are wasting funding and manpower....on a country that is no better than Castro’s Cuba or Assad’s Syria. Why? This is a dark comedy with some nut in charge....who is virtually unknown in his own country other than the legendary video’s they make on the guy.
50 year old game.
Curtis LaMay knew what to do. Nuke em back in the 50’s and this crap would’ve been stopped. The entire cold war would’ve been done earlier, and no China-commie garbage either.
50 year old game.
Curtis LaMay knew what to do. Nuke em back in the 50’s and this crap would’ve been stopped. The entire cold war would’ve been done earlier, and no China-commie garbage either.
Surely Bush never thought the N. Koreans would stand up to that bargain. The asshats got what THEY wanted and then reneged. 0 will be much to afraid to put any one with a terrorist list. US loses again. Thank you President Bush./s
TLR, thanks for the Early Warning postings.
Maybe the vaulted Red State Dept is still trying to lose South Korea...they are ashamed of the failure to give all of Asia to their Masters.
For a few decades now North Korea has played the world and especially the U.S. as their personal patsy.
Still our stupid State Dept. continues to give to the communist North. Still our string of presidents apparently hoping for the best are played for suckers too,
Screw em, quit ALL aid and let the bastards starve.
If they try to jump ugly, destroy them.
Quit being the punk, stand up and show you have some balls America.
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