Clinton Calls For "Patience" With North Korea

AFP ^ | May 07, 2009

[Tailgunner Joe]

WASHINGTON (AFP)--U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the U.S. and its negotiating partners may have to "show some patience" before nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea can resume.

Clinton, speaking at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said both the U.S. and Russia want to try to get the North Koreans back to the six-party negotiating framework.

"We may have to show some patience before that is achieved, but we agree on the goal that we are aiming for," Clinton said.

The U.S. has been involved in negotiations with the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia aimed at scrapping North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for aid under a landmark six-party agreement signed in 2007.

The negotiations deadlocked late last year over a dispute with North Korea over how to verify disarmament before taking a sharp turn for the worse with North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket April 5.

The North last week threatened to conduct a second nuclear test and ballistic missile tests unless the United Nations Security Council apologized for condemning and punishing its rocket launch.

Pyongyang said it put a peaceful satellite into orbit but the U.S., South Korea and Japan said it staged a disguised missile test.

When a Russian reporter asked if she was prepared to visit Pyongyang in a bid to find a way out of the deadlock, Clinton replied: "No, I have no plans of going to North Korea."

Stephen Bosworth, the special envoy for North Korea policy, was in Beijing Thursday at the start of a tour of Asia and Russia aimed at convincing the reclusive Communist state to resume nuclear disarmament talks.

[Retain Mike]

Nuclear Japan Will Counter North Korea

North Korea launching the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile offers compelling logic for Japan developing missile defense and nuclear retaliatory capabilities. Japanese should be asking where is evidence the U.S. would risk a nuclear strike on their country, just because Japanese cities are incinerated.

There exists abundant evidence to the contrary. Japan initially confirmed U.S. unstable, juvenile, ignorant attempts at international diplomacy when Clinton ignored the “face’ principle in concluding a bilateral agreement with North Korea over nuclear weapons, which excluded China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan. Bush #2 began six party talks, but undercut diplomatically a rare display of U.N. assertiveness in Resolutions 1695 and 1718 imposing military and economic sanctions on North Korea. A new missile launch prompts Obama to express displeasure, and to propose drastic cuts in our nuclear arsenal and missile defense program. Finally the vacuous mind of Hillary Clinton councils patience? This country remains mired in failed approaches to a lunatic regime.

Amazingly Russia and China offer approaches contrary expected cynicism and paranoia. North Korea escaped traditional coercion and prejudice through nuclear weapons programs based, not on Russian or Chinese, but Pakistani technology. In response these Asian leaders seem comfortable with a mentally unstable nuclear regime on their borders. Brezhnev or Mao would have dispatched such reckless individuals to cancer wards.

Japan's national self interest embraces a several thousand year heritage unfathomable to Westerners driven by two year election cycles. Japan’s decision to reject U.S. military protection will leave experts astonished with the rapid removal of political, technological, and treaty barriers.

The recent changes to Japan's basic law governing space should be all the clue needed that their patience is nearing an end. Following are links to two articles about the subject. I also found a PDF giving the full law text.

Japan Basic Space Law
Short Article
http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/japans-basic-space-law-enters-into-force/
Long Article
http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_japan_remilitarization0108.html

[matginzac]

Is that the same “patience” she used with Bill? “All things come to those who are patient”...and have their hubbie by the privates? I pity Kim Jong Ill...