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| More N-tests unless US makes concessions, says Pyongyang |
| 2006-10-11 |
| Threatening to put nuclear warheads on missiles and conduct further nuclear tests, a North Korean official said on Tuesday that his country would only return to disarmament talks if the United States made concessions. "We are still willing to abandon nuclear programmes and return to six-party talks," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying from Beijing. "We can do that any time only if the United States takes corresponding measures," the unidentified official said. Christopher Hill, the lead US negotiator in the stalled six-nation talks, said Washington could not accept a nuclear North Korea. He said Washington would push for strong action from the UNSC. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #18 Lol, ed. :-> |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-11 23:24 |
| #17 To get real concessions, better do another 6 nuke tests in quick succession. Bush and Rumsfeld are a little slow on the uptake, you know. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-10-11 23:19 |
| #16 It's time to make Kim make concessions - he's the trouble-maker. Step 1: Fill the DMZ with nuclear mines, laid by artillery. Let both sides know that if one of them goes off, all of them go off. Build the mines sensitive enough once they're armed that they will go off if Kimmie starts digging any more tunnels under the DMZ. Let Kimmie know this is step 1, with more to follow if he doesn't do as we tell him. Step 2: Mine NKorea's harbors with acoustical seabed mines, or with the neat little mine that releases a homing torpedo that the US developed in the late 1980's. Tell Kim they won't be activated unless he does something stupid, and then activate one or two every time he screws up. Let Kim and China know there is a step 3. Step 3: Tell the Chinese we'll destroy one of the dams on the Yalu each time Kim gets weapons or equipment from China, and follow through. China relies upon those dams to keep Nork citizens out, as well as for electrical power. If China gets too uppity, plant a nuke charge on the upriver face of the Three Gorges Dam, and threaten to set it off. Step 4: Tell the Russians they can dismantle all that rail transshipment center they built north of Unggi, or we'll simply bomb it out of existence. (NKorea and China use standard gauge [4'8"]railcars - Russia uses wide-gauge [5'] railcars. The Russian railcars can be made to work on standard-gauge tracks, but standard-gauge won't work on wide-gauge.) |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-10-11 18:57 |
| #15 The South Koreans are still at war. They may have forgotten that fact, but it's true. Leave them to their own devices if they don't wwant to cooperate with us. Pull out altogether. If that threat doesn't wake them up, they're not sleeping - they're already dead. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-10-11 11:41 |
| #14 This regime is ready to fall. China and SK are all that is propping it up. We need to make them stop propping it up and help take it down gently. Here's how: Remind SK that while we can move our soldiers safely south of the DMZ they cannot load Seoul's skyscrapers onto railcars and move them to Pusan. Tell them that, once we pull out, we will to bomb every regime, nuke, missile and WMD target in NK until the government collapses. We will also implement a naval and air blockade. We realize that there is a finite chance Kimmie will fire his artillery at Seoul if we do this but it would no longer be a primary consideration for us now that a terrorist supporting state has demonstrated nuclear capability. If the SK leaders are afraid Kimmie will destroy Seoul in his final death spasm, the have the option of getting ahead of the game and fomenting the collapse of Kimmies regime before we begin bombing. There is strong evidence that the NK military is no longer entirely loyal to the regime and that the people are beginning to show signs of frustration and diminished respect for dear leader. This can be quickly exploited. Stalinist regimes have a propensity for rapid collapse, especially when the people become aware that folks live better on the other side of the wire. As ethnic Koreans SK is capable of fomenting the regimes collapse by making contact with potential coup leaders and by broadcasting the right message to the people of NK. They should have done this a decade ago but are too corrupt and selfish. We need to force them to rethink this approach. |
| Posted by: JAB 2006-10-11 11:20 |
| #13 Given that last missile test, I seriously doubt he'd be putting nuclear warheads on missiles anytime soon, even if he had such warheads. Not even dirty bombs. Blockade the sucker and let him tantrum away. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-10-11 10:59 |
| #12 he's going to have to do more tests to get the next NRE payment from Ahmedinajihad heh ... program managers rise to the occasion. LOL |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-10-11 09:47 |
| #11 This is an admission that earlier tests were failures. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-10-11 09:46 |
| #10 Make Crinton plesident again. We rike him... |
| Posted by: KJI 2006-10-11 08:58 |
| #9 3 bowls of tree bark. only the best |
| Posted by: sinse 2006-10-11 08:45 |
| #8 What's he want exactly, in dollars? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-10-11 08:16 |
| #7 i. e. Kimmies blasts were duds and he's going to have to do more tests to get the next NRE payment from Ahmedinajihad. Good to be able to blame the development during testing on the Americans. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-10-11 06:35 |
| #6 Error, we're still at war with North Korea, there's no need to talk about it, and you won't like the concequences of the United States takimg" Corresponding Measures," This Dog needs whipping badly, so bad a whipping that he can never claim anything like "Victory" ever again. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-10-11 06:25 |
| #5 Latest news [Guam time]: NORTH KOREA > ANY SANCTIONS = DECLARATION OF WAR BY THE USA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-10-11 05:10 |
| #4 You already *ate* all your ponies, Kimmie. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-10-11 01:10 |
| #3 What they really want is subsidies. We tried that. Once bitten, twice shy. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-11 01:02 |
| #2 Go ahead. Burn through your crappy impure low-grade plutonium. Have fun scraping it back off of the test bore's walls when you're done. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-11 00:52 |
| #1 Give me candy or I hold my breath until I turn blue! |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2006-10-11 00:11 |