BEIJING (AP) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdogSorry - that always cracks me up. Okay, I'm better, now...
Always makes me think of Fluggy, the 3-headed watchdog in the first Harry Potter movie...
agency said Tuesday that sanctions alone would not resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
I love finger-wagging bureaucrats. They taste like chicken.
I hate chicken. It tastes like finger-wagging bureaucrats. Bleh.
In a speech at one of China's top universities, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also said there had to be development in countries such as North Korea - formally the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - to create a sense of security.
Because we all know how threatened the Norks feel ...
Seems to me, and I could be wrong on this but I'm not, that when the Korean war erupted it was a mismatch because the industrialized North was so much stronger than the agricultural South. The two ends of the Korean horse started out in approximately the same place. No doubt there's a reason that doesn't involve hard work, determination, and capitalism for SKor's success. I'm sure it'll come to me eventually. No doubt there's some reason it's physically impossible for the Norks to do the same thing.
"The solution will have to address the security, economic and other concerns of the DPRK. Quite often these nuclear crises underline a sense of insecurity that clearly needs to be addressed, and a sense of imbalance, economic discrimination also needs to be addressed," he told students at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
He's an expert, so listen carefully - and don't try this at home... in your Commie Dictatorship thingy.
You can tell he's an expert. Nothing he said made any sense.
North Korea's top nuclear envoy Kim Kye Gwan said after meeting his U.S. and South Korean counterparts in Beijing last week that his country would not unilaterally abandon its atomic weapons program. The envoys also failed to produce a date on restarting six-nation disarmament talks.
So the outlook for progress isn't very spiffy. I guess we'll hafta give in, huh?
Oh, we don't have to yet, as long as we give them money.
The multinational negotiations have been stalled for over a year due to a North Korean boycott.
The progressives, of course, blame Bush for the Nork boycott.
Efforts to resume the talks have taken on a new urgency since the North tested a nuclear device on Oct. 9.
Naw, it just means that we don't have anything to talk about anymore.