Posted on 12/16/2009 6:03:47 PM PST by Kaslin
Nuclear Diplomacy: President Obama has sent a "personal" letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, hoping to coax him back to the table to talk about cutting his nation's nuclear program. Good luck with that.
Repeated U.S. entreaties to the hermit state to cut its nuclear arsenal have availed us nothing. Just this month, U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth traveled to North Korea with a bunch of new diplomatic carrots for the regime.
The result? Bosworth put it this way, in classic diplomatese: "We identified some common understanding on the need for and a role of six-party talks and the importance of implementation of the 2005 joint statement (to dismantle the North's nuclear weapons)."
In short, he got nothing. But he did deliver Obama's personal letter to Kim.
Even the Washington Post called the letter "relatively unusual" for an American president. But it's not entirely without precedent. Both President Clinton and President Bush sent Kim personal letters, but only after extensive diplomatic efforts had failed.
At some point, it might start to dawn on those in the White House who run our national security apparatus that personal blandishments don't work with Kim.
The fact is, Kim, while cunning in his pursuit of self-preservation, is a sociopath, a mass murderer of his own people, responsible for the death by famine and torture of as many as 3 million North Koreans. The idea that you can make a rational appeal to his moral conscience is, well, beyond silly.
Moreover, Kim may just be on the way out. There are rumblings of discontent in the totalitarian state unseen in its 61-year history.
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So he’s up to 3. How many more Presidential autographs is he going to collect before he dies? Do you think he has a wall in the bathroom where he hangs these things?
We shouldn’t be bolstering this reprehensible regime by having diplomatic deallings with it. It’s a slave state, in which the entire public are slaves.
This is terrible. Zero has been flying on person charm for so long, he actually thinks his “appeal” extends to killers.
Narcissism is a mind-blowing disorder. The only thing one can do is isolate the narcissist from oneself to limit the damage.
Unfortunately for us, the Chief Narcissist is in charge and there is no where to run.
36 more months. 11 more months to take back the Congress.
Can we last? Or do the dirty dems have some way to fix the elections?
In any event, I’m more worried now that Zero thinks he can accomplish something by just being “himself.”
The Axis of Evil, Again Every nuclear-weapons state had foreign help.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389849589874347.html
Now it’s Pyongyang’s turn to be the link in the nuclear daisy chain. Its ties to Syria were exposed by an Israeli airstrike in 2007. As for Iran, its military and R&D links to the North go back more than 20 years, when Iran purchased 100 Scud-B missiles for use in the Iran-Iraq war.
Since then, Iranians have reportedly been present at a succession of North Korean missile tests. North Korea also seems to have off-shored its missile testing to Iran after it declared a “moratorium” on its own tests in the late 1990s.
In a 2008 paper published by the Korea Economic Institute, Dr. Christina Lin of Jane’s Information Group noted that “Increased visits to Iran by DPRK [North Korea] nuclear specialists in 2003 reportedly led to a DPRK-Iran agreement for the DPRK to either initiate or accelerate work with Iranians to develop nuclear warheads that could be fitted on the DPRK No-dong missiles that the DPRK and Iran were jointly developing. Thus, despite the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate stating that Iran in 2003 had halted weaponization of its nuclear program, this was the time that Iran outsourced to the DPRK for proxy development of nuclear warheads.”
“There are rumblings of discontent in the totalitarian state unseen in its 61-year history”
That’s interesting. We’re having similar rumblings less than one year into our totalitarian experience.
Dear O — take a lesson from NCO School: words don’t modify peoples’ behavior — consequences do.
Perhaps 0bama should send over an ipod of his best speeches
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