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Key Democrat calls for new US policy on North Korea
 The Bush administrations policy toward North Korea has failed and a new approach must be tried, including punishing the Norths leaders and sending a US envoy to Pyongyang for talks, a key Democrat said on Wednesday.
| Is he suggesting sending some Noo Joisey hard boyz to break their knees? |
One week after mid-term elections, Rep. Tom Lantos of California, who is expected to head the US House International Relations Committee when Democrats take over Congress in January, laid down markers for the way forward. The White House must try a new and bold approach towards the vexing North Korean crisis as it is now abundantly clear to the world that our current policies have failed, he told a hearing.
| As did the Clinton policies. If it were easy someone would have figured it out by now. |
Lantos said North Korean leaders, through sanctions and financial asset freezes, must feel personal pain for testing a nuclear weapon last month. Arguing this must be matched with heightened diplomacy, Lantos said US envoy Chris Hill must be dispatched to the next round of six-country talks with the authority to negotiate a comprehensive and verifiable deal and, afterward, should stop in Pyongyang to demonstrate our peaceful intent.
| Depends on the message Mr. Hill would deliver, wouldn't it? This is just more of the usual Dhimmicratic touchy-feeling school of diplomacy. |
The administrations refusal to allow visits by American diplomats to North Korea must end, as must internal divisions that have hobbled US policy, he added. Faced with this and other criticism, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said the administration achieved a tactical, but not strategic, success with a September 2005 agreement in which the North pledged to give up its nuclear programme in return for political and economic benefits.
Posted by: Fred 2006-11-17 |
