North Korea Denounces U.S. After Talks Offer (N. K. EXTENDS 'MIDDLE FINGER' TO US AFTER WH OVERTURE)

Yahoo News ^ | January 8, 2002 | Yahoo News

[AmericanInTokyo]

My, how many times do we have to learn the hard way about Communism, negotiating, tactics in an Asian context, and showing signs of weakness or going overboard on the overstated "we will not invade" nonsense?

Thank you Colin Powell, as well as the minions of career State Department personnel, in power no matter if either a Democratic or Republican Administration.

Time for the State Department to step back, and for D.O.D. to drive the issue for the Administration.

[hchutch]

Sheesh, Kim Jong-Il must REALLY want that can of whoop-ass.

Wait your turn, pal. We got business with Saddam first.

[goldstategop]

Appeasement never works. If Colon Bowell and Foggy Bottom haven't learned the lesson by now they never will. A display of force, not piddling diplomacy is what will convince North Korea's power mad dictator to stand down before war becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[per loin]

Gee. They give us the finger, put together a huge army, build nukes, and tell us they are gonna use them on us. I wish I could figure out what they are trying to communicate.

[Dialup Llama]

>My, how many times do we have to learn the hard way about Communism, negotiating, tactics in an Asian context,

What is different about negotiation tactics in an Asian context?

[linn37]

well we tried....tee hee

[linn37]

well we tried....tee hee

[Psalm 73]

They may sound a different tune after we beat the snot out of Iraq and then help Iran to a "regime change".
What we do in Iraq will be so quick and so violent that even thick-headed lunatics like Kim Jong Il will gasp and break a sweat.
God Bless the American military and our Brittish and Aussie allies - once again we save the world from itself.
Let's Roll !!

[Admin Moderator]

Please, let's stick to original titles. Thank you.

[DWSUWF]

"...Thank you Colin Powell, as well as the minions of career State Department personnel, in power no matter if either a Democratic or Republican Administration..."

Bingo.

Give that walking proof of the 'Peter Principle' a gold watch and get him the Hell out of this administration.

How many young American fighting men will have to die... Soon... Because of this in-over-his-head buffoon's verbal diarrhea?

Send Powell home before his sophomoric miscalculations result in something horrific.

[hobbes1]

The Best argument I've heard recently, is to let Japan have the Bomb.

Our China Policy, and Our North Korea Policy, would be greatly effectuated, by giving them the same headache.

Hell, as long as China and North Korea want to play atomic footsie, maybe we should consider making Taiwan a member of the Nuclear Club.

[headsonpikes]

Eat grass, Kim baby!

You can eat lead later.

[per loin]

How 'bout Cambodia, Haiti, Kosovo, and the Central African Republic. I'm sure each of them could enhance their stature by buying a nuke or two.

[TLBSHOW]

.S. and North Korea: Sleeping With the Enemy

You probably know that it has long been U.S. policy to abet the genocidal communist dictatorship of North Korea. You probably didn't know just how much you and other taxpayers are helping a regime that maniacally hates America and starves its own people to build its military.

Bill Clinton's scheme to pacify Pyongyang was idiotic to start with and looks worse with each passing day. Since 1994, the United States has given North Korea:


$591 million in food aid.

$900 million in oil aid, even though we rely on petroleum imports.

$6 billion to build nuclear reactors, thanks to Slick Willie and his stooge envoy Jimmy Carter.
Of course, if the U.S. even considers canceling its despised aid, the blame-America-first crowd, foreign and domestic branches, will shriek.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/6/193224

[happygrl]

Eat grass, Kim baby!

You can eat lead later.

And after that Heads on Pikes Mr. Kim.

BTW AIT, I LIKED YOUR AD LIB TITLE.

[BlueLancer]

""People do not think that there is going to be a war in the Korean peninsula," a Unification Ministry official told Reuters."

Good ... then we can immediately withdraw our aircraft and troops from that hellhole.

Three-tour 2nd Infantry Division vet (1980,1988,1994)

[Steel Wolf]

Hell, as long as China and North Korea want to play atomic footsie, maybe we should consider making Taiwan a member of the Nuclear Club.

Taiwan has been an unofficial member for decades. That's a bad part of town they live in.

The opening part of this article is very misleading. What just hours after Washington changed tack and signaled a willingness to talk about their nuclear standoff. means is that the administration came out and said that if Pyongyang wanted to discuss how they could get back in line with their international agreements, we would help, but there would be no talk of concessions at all.

That's hardly a 'new' policy.

[McGavin999]

It's pretty obvious at this point that NK is throwing a temper tantrum and demanding attention from the US. Notice how they are saying it's none of Japan's business. LOL, none of their business? No, because they want to force the US to talk to them and the Chinese are using the NK's to try to sway the US off the Iraq path. Looks like the Bush administration is not falling for it.

The key to this is the lack of panic on the part of the South Koreans.