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SoKo Wears "Kick Me, Now" Sign For Kimmie
THE prospects for tough, swift action against North Korea were scuppered yesterday when it became clear that South Korea will not abandon its policy of engagement with its totalitarian neighbour, in spite of North Koreas claimed nuclear test.  As the US and Japan called for tough punishment for Mondays test and experts predicted that a second may be imminent, leaders in Seoul appeared to have accepted that they will have to live with a nuclear North Korea at least until Washington can be persuaded to engage in direct talks with the isolated Stalinist state. Lets face the reality: North Korea is a nuclear power and it wont be easy to change that, said Moon Chung In, a professor of political science who is also an ambassador at large for the South Korean Government. We could have prevented it, but the US would not. Now weve got to learn how to live with it. Chinese foreign officials in Beijing spoke of the negative impact the test had had on their relations with North Korea, an unprecedented shift. But in New York, where the diplomatic aftershocks of the test are being negotiated, profound differences among the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council were becoming ever more apparent Posted by: Captain America 2006-10-10 |
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