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| U.S. mulls possible incentives to North Korea |
| 2003-08-14 |
| TITLE TRANSLATION - Get out you wallet America EFL In an attempt to end the nuclear standoff with North Korea, the United States is ready to support an incentive package for the Communist country if it guarantees to freeze and verifiably dismantle its nuclear program, two senior Bush administration officials said. Under the deal, the United States and its allies would agree to provide the Pyongyang government a written security assurance, or communiqué, that the United States has no intention of attacking North Korea. North Korea has said one of its key demands is for the United States to agree to a nonaggression pact. While the Bush administration has ruled out signing a formal treaty, U.S. officials said they hope this formulation will satisfy North Korean concerns. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted at such a possibility last week. "We won’t do nonaggression pacts or treaties, things of that nature," Powell said in a news conference with foreign journalists. "but we’re more than happy to reward bad behavior..." U.S. officials resist characterizing this move as a concession (’cause that would get them fired) and insist the deal would hold only so long as North Korea didn’t commit any more provocative acts and continued to freeze its nuclear and missile programs. In addition, the United States would be ready to offer other economic incentives. These would include U.S. assistance in helping North Korea secure loans from international lending institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank and an end to a long-standing trade embargo. If we were just going to evetually fold and give little kimmy money, what was the point of being tough on the twerp in the first place? Officials said the United States and Japan agree North Korea must take steps to end or freeze its nuclear program if it is to receive any concessions, such as food aid or a security guarantee. But they also said South Korea wants to reward North Korea much earlier in the process. |
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| #11 Reference Steve's comment above: In the meantime, we should mine NKor's harbors. Seal 'em up tight! Tell the Chinese we'll pass a law requiring all US companies to leave China in six weeks if they don't cut off supplies from the north. Tell Russia we'll have our good friends the Japanese start demanding repatriation of the Kuriles if they don't go along. Time to play to win. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-8-14 8:28:45 PM |
| #10 Wait folks, this might just be more propaganda on our part. All it is so far is talk. "Sure Kim, we can talk about incentives. If you dismantle the breeder reactor, you get $250 million of food and oil when you're done, and $0 until it is." "But that will take four years to do!" "Yep, our experts say that as well. Better get started!" |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-14 3:38:18 PM |
| #9 I've been to Chi Chi's - it's not great but I don't think it'll kill them. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-14 3:23:55 PM |
| #8 Appeasement is such a crock of fertilizer. We go broke giving money to international criminals. State needs some real disinfection to prevent the spread of this brain disease. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-14 2:29:48 PM |
| #7 Death _by_ Chi-Chi! |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-8-14 1:17:15 PM |
| #6 The carrot approach is a waste of time (although it did get Carter a Nobel Prize). Time for the stick. North Korea gets NOTHING until it's verifiably disarmed. In the meantime they can continue to eat dirt. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-8-14 12:58:12 PM |
| #5 I would give Kim two choices: Death or Chi-chi. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-14 12:26:51 PM |
| #4 Dammit! I really hope this gets Powell fired...he is not a war-time consigliere... |
| Posted by: mjh 2003-8-14 11:41:06 AM |
| #3 Department of State Appeasement at its best... |
| Posted by: mjh 2003-8-14 11:40:22 AM |
| #2 The only acceptable incentive is to tell the N Korean regime to fold up and leave the country. If they want to stay in business making nukes, then they can find some other way to pay the bills. The only aid a North korean govenrment should get is if they are a free market republic. Other than that, they should pound sand. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-8-14 11:37:28 AM |
| #1 the USSR crumbled because it went broke trying to keep up with the US. Let's all prop up NK while it's teetering on collapse. Good move. Especially South Korea. "They're falling apart up there, send money and food before the country umm....changes." |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-14 10:30:22 AM |