China asks US to forget nuclear free North Korea

Jang ^ | September 5, 2003

[Prodigal Son]

WASHINGTON: Less than a week after the six-party talks in Beijing failed to defuse the nuclear crisis in Korean peninsula, China has asked US to abandon the idea of a de-nuclearised North Korea and to compromise with Pyongyang, a media report said on Friday.

China wants the US to abandon its position that North Korea should unconditionally end and dismantle its nuclear weapons programme before any benefits, such as US security guarantee or economic aid, could be considered, a Chinese official told a US daily in an interview.

North Korea has demanded a non-aggression treaty with the US in exchange for halting, but not dismantling, its nuclear programme, the officer said.

The Bush Administration should consider modifying its demand for a complete and total dismantling of all of North Korea's nuclear programme, it said.

The official also rejected the view held by some members of the Bush administration that North Korea's main goal was to possess nuclear weapons.

[MEG33]

Gee,and I thought China was supposed to help.We're back to blackmail.

[azhenfud]

IMO, China and North Korea should forget the U.S. making a compromise with Pyongyang. NK has proven to the conscious world shown an incapacity to live up to agreements. China should take her head out of the sand long enough to see who's actually messing in the sandbox.

[b4its2late]

Of course they would not want us to take something away from North Korea that the Chinese themselves most likely gave to North Korea.

[DoctorMichael]

Monkeys-in-Suits Bump.

[Monkey King]

So...

China's OK with a nuclear Japan?
A Nuclear Australia?
A Nuclear New Ze... Oh, never mind.

[appeal2]

Red Herring Alert. 150,000 Chicom troops on the NK border.