Posted on 07/10/2018 7:46:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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North Korea reportedly extended an offer to Israel in 1999 to nix its agreements to sell missile technology to Iran and other enemy states that posed a threat to the Jewish state at the time - if Israel paid Pyongyang $1 billion in cash.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal published Sunday, Israel did not take the offer. Instead, Jerusalem offered food aid and the talks ended without an agreement.
The alleged and failed extortion attempt took place during an exchange between North Korea's envoy to Sweden and his Israeli counterpart while the pair met in a café in Stockholm, the Journal reported....
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
We were heading in that good direction last year and earlier this year—that is until visions of sugarplum nobel prizes apparently started dancing in somebody’s head. Now here we are.
yeah... to look forward to Trump or even Bush would have been pushing it
I think Trump wants to get as much political capital as he can. If this audacious proposal to Kim goes nowhere, then it’s back to plan A, and nobody can complain “oh, we didn’t try.”
very likely a correct report
In 1999, North Korea had nothing but sloppy fireworks to sell to Iran. Iran itself probably could come up with better.
Haaretz is very left wing paper. Sorta like the washPost of Jerusalem. Not reliable source very often imho
I don’t think Trump let the thought of a Nobel Peace prize influence him.
>> 1999?
Yup, NK was willing to negotiate at least two decades ago. WTF has been going on since?
“Why pay the money when you KNOW you can get your Shabbot Goy to take out the trash FOR you..?”
moron.
1999, eh?
Back in 1994, they hit the US up for 4B, so if NK was asking Israel for another B five years later, which was a year after the Clinton admin knew that NK was cheating, that would be about the time NK was exporting nuke tech to Iran and Syria, who were also paying NK big bucks. Israel responded to the blackmail attempt by waiting until the facility in Syria was built, and then wiped it out in 2003. Good for Israel.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/19/world/clinton-approves-a-plan-to-give-aid-to-north-koreans.html
The total cost of the project was put at $4 billion by Robert L. Gallucci, the chief American negotiator with the North. The financing would be supplied by South Korea, Japan and possibly Germany, Russia and the United States.
Under the accord, North Korea would agree to allow full and continuous inspections of its existing nuclear sites, freeze and then later take apart some of its most important nuclear plants and ultimately ship out of the country fuel rods that could be converted into fuel for weapons.
former Clinton administration officials have said they knew North Korea was cheating on the uranium enrichment front dating back to 1998 and planned to use that intelligence as leverage
This happened 20 years ago. My conclusion is the North Korean missile technology must not have been that good.
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