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| N. Korea Says It Will Ignore Resolutions |
| 2003-04-05 |
| Wotta surprise! As the United Nations Security Council prepared to discuss North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons, the communist state warned Saturday it would ignore any U.N. resolutions on the issue. ``The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is not something that should be discussed at the United Nations,'' the state-run KCNA news agency said. "'Cause we're crazy, that's why!" North Korea ``would not recognize and pronounce null any resolution or document on the nuclear issue,'' said KCNA, monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. "We won't recognize it, we won't read it, we won't even be in the same room with it!" The Security Council is due to discuss the nuclear dispute on Wednesday. North Korea rejects U.N. involvement in the standoff, saying the North's dispute is only with the United States. Pyongyang demands direct talks with Washington. Washington, which wants multilateral talks, has been pressing the council to adopt a statement condemning Pyongyang for failing to meet its obligations to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. China, which has ties with the reclusive North Korean regime, has refused to even discuss such a statement. Though they did turn off the oil briefly. Bet that starched Kim's shorts. The 15-member council could eventually discuss imposing sanctions against North Korea if a political solution is not found - a move the North has warned it would regard as a declaration of war. But both China and Russia have said they oppose international sanctions. For weeks, North Korea has Though they won't do sanctions and won't talk about the matter at the Security Council. Guess there's nothing left but talk! Ra visited Moscow and Beijing this week. Meanwhile, 15 ruling and opposition lawmakers of South Korea suggested on Friday that Seoul consider economic sanctions against Pyongyang. The proposal came as North Korea showed no indications that it would attend Cabinet-level talks with South Korea, scheduled to begin in Pyongyang on Monday. South Korean officials had hoped to use the talks to try to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for aid and better ties with the outside world. Depends: how much were they planning to pay the North? |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Doesn't Kim Jong-Il know that the only ones who can legitimately declare something "null and void" at the UN are the French? I guess he can forget about that Champs-Elysee shopping trip with Bob Mugabe if he keeps that up..... |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-05 18:18:44 |
| #1 Economic sanctions? Ha ha ha ha! I wish them luck. As I see it, there's no way this won't get ugly in some fashion as long as "Dear Leader" is calling the shots in the North. This is a very tricky issue for the South Koreans -- they don't really want to be downwind of the potential fallout when the North starts flaunting nuclear-tipped missiles. Be it by mushroom clouds or "dirty bombs" (NK supplies the radioactives, outsiders supply the bombs), South Koreans are well advised to start making civil defense preparations. That said, I want to add that I don't see this as a job for GWB anytime soon. Let the locals stew in it and sell them whatever weapons they want. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-04-05 09:51:56 |