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Seoul, Washington Resolved to Outwit Nork Tactics
Brilliant! What a brilliant idea!
South Korea and the U.S. are working out a strategy to avoid falling for North Korea’s brinkmanship tactics again after almost 15 years of nuclear talks that have produced little result.

The two allies are apparently determined to maintain sanctions against the North until it denuclearizes. They believe their mistake in the past has been a piecemeal approach to negotiations that immediately rewarded the North for every small, reversible step.
Sort of like tossing a dog a yummie every time he wags his tail ...
Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee on Thursday, "Even if its talks with the North resume, the U.S. will maintain UN Security Council sanctions unless the North takes tangible measures toward denuclearization."

"This government too will maintain the existing policy of faithfully implementing sanctions against the North until it takes verifiable steps to end its nuclear program." At the same time, we'll keep the dialogue door open to persuade the North to return to the six-party talks," he added.

A senior government official said, "There will be no compensation until North Korea takes action to denuclearize."

All the signs are that Seoul and Washington are determined not to fall again for the North's cycle of provocations, conciliatory gestures and stalling for time to win concessions. As a senior government official has suggested, South Korea and the U.S. need "basic changes to the larger framework in their approach to the North Korean nuclear issue."

North Korea has often avoided sanctions by agreeing to dialogue, slicing the denuclearization process into smaller stages, from "shutdown," via "disablement" to "dismantlement," and pulling out before the process is complete.

A Cheong Wa Dae official said, "We won't engage in talks that might result in stage-by-stage agreements like the statement of principles in the fourth round of the six-party in Sept. 19, 2005, or talks that led to an agreement on reversible disablement like the Feb. 13, 2007 deal."

Prof. Kim Sung-han of Korea University said Seoul and Washington would "conduct talks to launch a North Korean version of the Marshall Plan," the large-scale economic aid program for postwar Europe, "as well as security guarantees if the North goes directly to the stage of verifiable dismantlement and completely removes its nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and nuclear facilities overseas."
And shoots Kimmie and the generals ...

Posted by: Steve White 2009-09-18
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=279197