N Korea makes gesture to S Korea

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030419/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear&cid=516&ncid=716 ^

[bigghurtt]

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Saturday proposed high-level talks with South Korea, apparently offering an olive branch a day after it threw planned negotiations with the United States in doubt with confusing claims about reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for atomic weapons.

[bigghurtt]

anyone think iraq has anything to do with this?

[Illbay]

"Makes gesture" could be taken a variety of ways.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

Another N. Korean tactic of driving a wedge between S. Korea and America. While ratcheting up their rhetoric against America, N. Korea will try to emphasize that N. and S. Korea should stick together against American threats as "Koreans", and help N. Korea by sending food and fertilizers. N. Korea could also say that it will not go nuclear and everything will be fine(which is not guaranteed). So do not back America's tougher stance.

In short, don't turn on us, give us some stuff we can eat. After all, we are talking to you now, unlike last several months when we refused to talk to you. That is what N. Korea could say.

[Samurai_Jack]

Why do we care, if the North Koreans want to have bilateral talks with their neighbors the South Koreans then we should wholeheartedly support this. We have been working to get the North Koreans to talk to their neighbors. It seems to me that the North Koreans are doing exactly what we wanted them to do in the first place.

EXCELLENT

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #5

Well, this kind of talk has been going on for a long time. We do not need American pressure to make it happen. N. Korea so far refuse to talk to S. Korea about bilateral security, including their nuke program. N. Korea talks to S. Korea over some marginal issues. For the real substantive matters, N. Korea only talks to U.S.

U.S. and S. Korea want this behavior to change. Their policy of "Talk to America, and shaft S. Korea" (Tong-Mi-Bong-Nam in Korean), which N. Korea has been pursuing for decades.

But current S. Korean admin is not trying enough to push such a change.:(

[Puppage]

Ya mean the severe ass-kicking they received?

YOU BET CHA!

[LibertarianInExile]

Well, what's Roh gonna do? I mean, he can't actually do crap, can he? I'm in agreement that Roh is a lib weenie, but so far, he seems to be an honest one, compared to his predecessor. And he has shut the left down--you haven't seen any stupid anti-war crap around the U.S. embassy in weeks.

We'll see if the Yankee Koreans are really willing to do anything or are trying to get more money and more free stuff. Coupla days ago, they actually TOLD the South Koreans that they EXPECTED more free rice and free fertilizer. Not asked. Just told. And the South is just gonna give it to them. That they cave completely to every demand the North Koreans make is further evidence that the South's governmental philosophy here has just gone completely nuts. They want reunification at any price, and they'll probably get it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Let the two sides talk. Its only a matter of time before the NK's set off another bomb trying to kill the SK representatives. They've done it before.

[Crowcreek]

Is this the "Iraqi Coalition" North Korea? I think it's time the free world made a few gestures in their direction -- Concrete-busting gestures !

[JimRed]

"Makes gesture" could be taken a variety of ways.

Was it one finger, or the whole arm?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...These countries are reacting to our reasonable World Policy as they now realize that...

.."Hey, we'd better get on the Bandwagon here 'cause Freedom IS the Wave of the Future."

4-SURE.


.....ALOHA RONNIE, C-Span's 'Washington Journal,' Sunday April 13, 2003

[Grampa Dave]

Shock and Awe had something to do with it. The link below had more to do with it!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895957/posts

N Korean scientists defect ("Operation Weasel!")
The Weekend Australian ^ | April 19, 2003 | Martin Chulov and Cameron Stewart


Posted on 04/18/2003 12:19 PM PDT by ellery


A SWATH of North Korea's military and scientific elite, among them key nuclear specialists, has defected to the US and its allies through a highly secret smuggling operation involving the tiny Pacific island of Nauru.

The defections have taken place since last October and have been made possible through the help of 11 countries that agreed to provide consular protection to smuggle the targets from neighbouring China, according to sources close to the operation, which has now been wound up.

Some countries also agreed to act as transit points for up to 30 days once the defectors left China, the sources claim.

Among those now believed to be in a safe house in the West is the father of North Korea's nuclear program, Kyong Won-ha, who left his homeland late last year with the help of Spanish officials. Debriefings of Mr Kyong are said to have given intelligence officials an unprecedented insight into North Korea's nuclear capabilities, particularly at the feared reactor number one in the southern city of Yongbyon.

The operation – dubbed Weasel – has been largely facilitated through non-government organisations and private citizens from South Korea, the US and its allies. It has deliberately been kept at arm's length from any government.

It is understood to have led directly to the defection of up to 20 senior North Korean officials in the past six months.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895957/posts

[river rat]

That perverted little loudmouthed cockroach in North Korea ...is long OVERDUE to be squashed....

SQUASHED.....flat, and pi$$ed on...

Semper Fi

[CARSNTRUCKS]

Back me in a corner with no food or money and I'll tell you whatever you want to hear. If I think I got you I'll work it for whatever I can.....then, once I'm fat again I'll kick your ...

[CARSNTRUCKS]

Back me in a corner with no food or money and I'll tell you whatever you want to hear. If I think I got you I'll work it for whatever I can.....then, once I'm fat again I'll kick your ...thats the philosophy of N Korean nerds...