N. Korea Says It's Unilateral Removing I.A.E.A. Nuke Plant Surveillance Cameras at Once (Breaking)

Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo (In Japanese) from RadioPress Reports ^ | 15 December 2002 | Sankei Shimbun News (Japanese)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Breaking hard.

Kyodo news (from Radio Press) reported just now that the Korean Central News Agency (communist Pyongyang) stated that if the I.A.E.A. does not remove the seals and cameras on their nuke plants, they are going to begin immediately dismantling them and removing them.

Koffi Anan of the UN, and the I.A.E.A. chief told them just hours ago not to try and pull this stunt.

Time for the Security Council Meeting.

[Cold Heat]

fact=face=too much coffee (or coffi, ar whatever)

[Squantos]

Am I wrong to "assume" that North Korea doesn't even toss out their bath water without the specific directions and approval from their ChiCom Puppet Masters ? Theres a whole lot more than this saber rattling going on IMO.

Stay Safe !

[Travis McGee]

Or else... what?

What can Koffi do about it? Send the UN's aircraft carriers to the coast of North Korea?

[OReilly]

But, but, Bill Clinton had an agreement with them.

Where is Bill clinton's second Secretary of State... that looser NotSoBright. She was so annoying trying to bask in the glow of that agreement. Why hasn't CNN called her to defend the Clinton Administration?

[Travis McGee]

While Uncle Sam is heavily invested in the Iraq buildup, our enemies elsewhere are getting busy.

Watch the Taiwan Straits.

[FreeTheHostages]

"Time for Security Council meeting."

I don't mind if they meet, but we got to do what we got to do. North Korea probably thinks we're too extended and that this is a good time for them to make this move. This is serious.

Thanks for the breaking news post. Good post, bad news.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

"Somebody's VERY desperate for us to not go into Iraq, aren't they..."

EGG'ZACTLY!!!!

[Steve Eisenberg]

Giving back the North Korean missiles being sent to Yemen showed weakness and may now be biting us.

[Robert357]

But, but, Bill Clinton had an agreement with them.

No, Bill may have thought he had an agreement, but he didn't. I am sure that if he reviews things, Bill will conclude that it was all just a misunderstanding over something like the meaning of an ambiguious word like "is" or something.

Deals can only be made with people of honor or by the threat of violence or imposition of physical control.

[hellinahandcart]

Sheer repetition has enabled me to see a pattern...

"Threat over here! No, now it's over there! Stop looking at Iraq! Look anywhere but Iraq! Don't go in there! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

[aculeus]

Perhaps this has something to do with it ... (via BBC)

Saturday, 14 December, 2002, 15:54 GMT

North Korea takes aim at Bond

James Bond's latest "enemy" is fighting back.

Fictional North Korean agents torture the British spy in his new film, and now Pyongyang is angry for real.

Official statement

North Korea has called on the United States to stop showing Die Another Day saying it is "insulting the Korean nation".

The film - starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry - "clearly proves" the US is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation" and is "an empire of evil", according to the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

In his 20th adventure, Bond tries to stop an illegal arms deal between a South African diamond smuggler and evil North Korean officer, Colonel Moon, feared to be planning an invasion of South Korea and then Japan.

He takes a hovercraft across the heavily fortified border but is caught and tortured in North Korea before being released in a prisoner exchange.

'Inciting confrontation'

Bond's Korea shows a farmer tilling a field with a cow, which critics say makes the country appear backward. 007 also finds time for sex in a Buddhist temple.


The secretariat's statement said the film is a "dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander [North Korea] and insult the Korean nation".

It says the film describes North Korea "as part of an 'axis of evil', inciting inter-Korean confrontation, groundlessly despising and insulting the Korean nation and malignantly desecrating even religion".

The US is "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siecle corrupt sex culture", the statement said.

Widespread upset

The temple sex scene has also caused upset in South Korea where some opponents are trying to organise a boycott of the film before it opens.

Relations between the US and both Koreas have been going through difficult periods.

US President George W Bush called North Korea part of an "axis of evil" along with Iran and Iraq and there are new fears about Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons programme.

In South Korea, anti-American sentiment has swelled after the acquittals of two US soldiers whose armoured vehicle killed two Korean girls in June.

[MonroeDNA]

I guess cutting off their oil in winter, like we did, is taking effect already.

Good. Let them threaten and bluster, while thier people freeze. They will implode, like all communist countries do when they are on thier own.

[Hugin]

I see China's hand in this!

I respectfully disagree. I don't think they want an unstable crackpot like Kim Jong Il on their back porch with nukes any more than Japan and So. Korea. After all, the No Dongs can only reach Alaska, but they can hit anywhere in China. There's no benefit to them from NK having nukes at all.

[MonroeDNA]

The film WAS bogus. They have no cows. It's the people who are eating grass.

[Dog]

Those Scuds off of Yemen were part of this also...

[Dog]

I disagree.......something odd happened with those missiles. We let them go to easy.....something else is taking place that we aren't allowed to know about.

[Almondjoy]

Seriously..... Someone is pulling strings in the background on this whole bit. I don't like it all. What if NK tries to pull some bs while we are in Iraq.. what if China tries to move on Taiwan.. they are being awfully quiet about this whole Iraq thing. Very unlike those characters.

[rs79bm]

I think North Korea needs to be kicked into shape a little bit. (....calling President Bush...)

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

It is of great interest (and of course concern) that many "hot spots" around the world acted up almost simultaneously right after 9/11.

It "is" all part of a bigger plan. Which is why we are extremely blessed to have an administration capable of handling it all. I might add.. anyone who doesn't think we are vulnerable is the epitomy of naive. The chances are higher that we "will" experience something, than not.

It took almost a decade for operatives to set up in our land. They are here, and they are in place. For anyone who doesn't understand the scale of these threats.. or understand how this all started.. let me lead their search for answers to Indonesia. Jakarta for starters,..and way back in the late 80's early 90's. Where there were large groups of terrorists being trained, then shipped around the WORLD!! We all need to understand the "larger" picture. We all need to "support" this administrations efforst to clean up a HUGE mess.

FRegards, Vets

[Mo1]

Giving back the North Korean missiles being sent to Yemen showed weakness and may now be biting us.

Only if those missiles are still working

If I was to take a guess .. we would not have let that ship go if they were .. remember our military were able to board that ship