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Obama keeps N. Korea off list of state sponsors of terror
The Hill ^ | 02/03/10 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 02/03/2010 4:20:45 PM PST by Baladas

President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Wednesday that he would keep North Korea off of a list of state sponsors of terror.

Obama said in a leader to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the president of the Senate -- technically Vice President Joe Biden -- that he had concluded that the government of North Korea "does not meet the statutory criteria to again be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism."

North Korea was removed from the state sponsor list in the waning days of President George W. Bush's time in office. Bush, who had labeled the nation a member of his "Axis of Evil" earlier in his administration, removed the communist government in exchange for a freeze on Korea's nuclear weapons development.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: kimjongil; northkorea; obama; prnk
North Korea has been shipping arms to Iran ever since they were removed from this list.
1 posted on 02/03/2010 4:20:47 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

More weapons-grade stupidity from Obama and the Democrats.


2 posted on 02/03/2010 4:22:52 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Baladas

The Keystone Cops are in charge of our security.


3 posted on 02/03/2010 4:28:27 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Damn. Elmer Fudd is our president now. What a Maroon!
4 posted on 02/03/2010 4:35:27 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: Baladas

Oh yeah, Dear Reader is scared to piss off Dear Leader. What a SOS we have for a so-called “president”.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 4:41:39 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Baladas

Jimmy Carter on Russian invasion of Afghanistan, 1979, “That one event taught me more about the Soviet Union than any other thing in my life..”

Hmm...wonder what it will take to get Obummer to “understand” the DPRK....?


6 posted on 02/03/2010 5:49:58 PM PST by TokuMei
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