To give up South Korea without resistance? Give us what we want and nobody gets hurt.
Posted on 05/09/2009 6:31:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
North Korea's current refusal to enter into a dialogue with the U.S. is likely to be a high-end brinkmanship to force Washington to promise the North a consistent U.S. policy on North Korea, a regime security assurance, and an arms reduction pact, a prominent North Korea watcher said.
"The Obama administration has already sent a signal to North Korea through Stephen Bosworth, its front man on North Korea, who is currently on an Asian swing, that it wants high-level talks with the North. That, however, fell on deaf ears. What does North Korea really want?" asked Victor Cha, former director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, in a column that appeared on Chosun Ilbo Saturday.
In the past, North Korea didn't conceal its desire to have a bilateral contact with the U.S., which the latter has responded with unwillingness. Now, as the U.S. wants to have a dialogue with North Korea, it is Pyongyang that refuses the talks, saying such a dialogue is "useless."
"I think North Korea wants three things," Cha said.
Firstly, North Korea wants a consistent U.S. policy toward the nation even after the U.S. has a different administration through elections. This "election proof pact," in the words of Cha, is due to the fact that North Korea had a bitter experience before when an almost successful diplomatic normalization with the U.S. during the Clinton administration didn't bear fruit when George W. Bush administration won the election.
Secondly, North Korea wants an arms reduction pact, not a nuclear negotiation, Cha said. He views it as North Korea's desire to be recognized as a nuclear state. In that case, North Korea wants a mutually bound nuclear disarmament that is based on building mutual trust, rather than a unilateral elimination of North Korean nuclear facilities.
Thirdly, Cha said North Korea wants a special form of assurance that can guarantee the regime's security. To economically survive, North Korea itself also knows that it needs to open up, but doing so, it fears, may lead to the demise of the regime, Cha observed. Therefore, North Korea wants a guarantee from the U.S. that it will not promote the collapse of the regime while the latter goes through reform.
While it is plausible that the Obama administration may accept the first proposal, America will be less keen to accommodate the second and third requests, Cha viewed, citing that America's entering into a deal with North Korea will betray the trust of its allies and its security guarantee to a regime like Pyongyang goes against the American values and human rights concerns.
North Korea desires our priceless absence.
Cash and our exit from South Korea so they can invade again.
Obama bailout?
In negotations, if you are worried about there side that means they are worried about their side and you are so how is worried about our side. no one.
The Koreans don’t want us to have a position therefore ceeding to them.
Tell them to put in a capitalist system, free and fair elections, no more “leaders” and open their borders to the north - China and the south
Then we will talk to them.
America’s entering into a deal with North Korea will betray the trust of its allies and its security guarantee to a regime like Pyongyang goes against the American values and human rights concerns.
Not that that would stop Obama from concluding such a pact.
NK wants us to die. each and every one of us.
I’d go with cash and “respect”...
I believe that’s what they’re after,
recognition as a world power,
and cash from capitalism to prop up their commie state.
Unfortunately for them, we’re going commie now, too, so we can’t help them there.
North Korea wants regime longevity. Also money, security and being noticed is desired.
To give up South Korea without resistance? Give us what we want and nobody gets hurt.
“NK wants us to die. each and every one of us.”
Bingo - we have a winner!
The writer Cha is an imbecile, and the feckless and utterly gormless Obama administration is, too. Particularly if it buys Cha’s claptrap. The whole thing reminds me of the scene in the film “Independence Day” wherein the president asks the alien what it wants, and its simple reply is, “Die!”
That’s really all the North Koreans are asking of us, and everybody else, for that matter. When the Obamanauts begin their choruses of “Kumbaya” and “Can’t we all just get along?” the Koreans will enjoy a good laugh, but that’s all that will result.
As a rogue terrorist sponsoring nation that has been turned into a country sized concentration camp, whatever they want from us is completely irrelevant.
Hell Yeah!
Exactly. The North knows Obama is desperate to talk to them and to make some sort of "peace in our time" The nonsense they are spouting now might be labeled "Let's see just how much they want to talk and how much we can get by being difficult."
Bush didn't change policy on an successful Clinton agreement. The damn NK's leaned over the table and said, "We have a nuke, the agreement we violated is void."
How does a country with 5 or 10 bombs have a mutual arms reduction pact with a country having thousand of nuclear weapons of various types? Stupid!
Then they want us to guarantee the regime's security. I guess we will have to reopen Gitmo and incarcerate pro freedom North Koreans. It will, however be cheaper as the NK's don't eat much, so I have been told.
Through the looking glass indeed.
NK wants respect - the fear & awe kind.
The tinpot dictator wants to be treated like an equal in strength, at bargaining tables because others fear not being there. They want to fight, to show that others take them seriously. If not for all the artillery pointed at Seoul we’d just drop a few bombs and consider the problem solved.
The biggest insult to NK is to just ignore the bluster. The only reason we take NK seriously is because a world-class city is under threat of immediate obliteration by this otherwise third-world hellhole.
Porn movies and KFC chicken .... OH, sorry, that’s Kim wanting that stuff ... the rest want more grass to eat ...
“This “election proof pact,” in the words of Cha, is due to the fact that North Korea had a bitter experience before when an almost successful diplomatic normalization with the U.S. during the Clinton administration didn’t bear fruit when George W. Bush administration won the election.”
Mr. Cha has the facts wrong.
The deal with the Clinton administration did not fall through simply because G.W. Bush was elected. It fell through because the north had been proven to NOT adhere to the conditions of the “deal” it made with Clinton, and rightly, the Bush administration simply acknowledged that the north was not abiding by that “deal” - ipso facto - a dead deal.
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