Iran invites North Korea's Kim to visit - official

Reuters ^ | 05/04/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

Iran invites North Korea's Kim to visit - official

Tue May 4, 2010 2:29pm IST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has invited North Korean's leader Kim Jong-il to visit the Islamic republic to further economic ties, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

"The invitation was made during a trip by the deputy foreign minister in charge of Asian and Oceanic affairs (Mohammad Ali Fatollahi)," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters at a weekly press briefing in response to a question.

"We are hopeful the visit will take place to serve as a leap forward in cooperation between the two countries, particularly in the economic field," he added. He gave no more details.

The United States fears that both Iran and North Korea will become nuclear-armed countries.

North Korea has demanded international recognition as nuclear-armed state but proliferation experts say that while it has enough plutonium for weapons it does not have the ability to place a weapon on a missile.

[TigerLikesRooster]

So what does Iran want to achieve with this statement? The chance of Kim making trip to Iran is almost nil. He is sick and there are too many security problems for this kind of trip, from Kim's point of view.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Which Kim? There are only about 10 million in NK!

[dfwgator]

Which Kim?

Chee?

[silverleaf]

plus, osama bin laden wants to personally shake Kim’s hand and deliver over his gold bullion for those brave and daring acts of defiance against America- ham du’l allah!

[The_Media_never_lie]

The fact that there are so many Kim's in Korea was told to me by a Kim from South Korea who was attending a technical meeting in Orlando. Kim signed in to the meeting on a Tuesday and skipped out to see Disney the rest of the week. He probably knew most of what was going to be ocvered anyway.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The fact that there are so many Kim’s in Korea was told to me by a Kim from South Korea who was attending a technical meeting in Orlando. Kim signed in to the meeting on a Tuesday and skipped out to see Disney the rest of the week. He probably knew most of what was going to be covered in the meeting anyway.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Iran could serve as intermediary, picking up Osama’s gold and delivering it via their old Soviet plane such as IL-76.:-)

[Mr. Lucky]

The US needs to invite that British sniper (who got the twofer at 1.5 miles) back for an encore to prove his skill.

[70th Division]

Nailed it. He probably smells like it too.

[AmericanInTokyo]

He would never make it back alive.

That is not a threat, just a well-seasoned observation.

[Non-Sequitur]

Can he get there by train? If memory serves he won’t fly.

[TSgt]

Kim signed in to the meeting on a Tuesday and skipped out to see Disney the rest of the week.

Isn't that what conferences are for? LOL!

[sickoflibs]

Whatever happened to Obama/Biden/Hillary’s promises that ‘talking our enemies’ would bring them to our knees?

Didnt work?

If they wanted to ‘talk’, why would they put weapons development as a #1 goal?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chia Head should know it. It talks about the economic cooperation. What should it be?

[TigerLikesRooster]

If they wanted to ‘talk’

Their 'talk' has only one goal lately: extort money. All the talk is about haggling about the price for them to keep quiet. For a while... then the whole thing starts again. In the mean time, they will have working nukes and their own nuclear ICBM's.

[ridesthemiles]

This could be interesting.
Kim does not fly- he only travels long distance by train.

What a great target for the Predator drones.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Isn't that what conferences are for? LOL!

Absolutely! (lol) And the fact that Asians (despite the work ethic myth) are a lot like us in this respect, makes them all the more understandable.

[chopperman]

I smell a ‘twofer’ in the air.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.