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| Envoy: Korea critics should give own plan |
| 2007-02-17 |
| The main U.S. envoy at the North Korea disarmament agreement said Friday that critics should put forth their own plan rather than simply criticize the one that was hammered out in Beijing this week. Christopher Hill, an assistant secretary of state who headed the U.S. delegation at the six-nation talks that led to the agreement, said some detractors think the U.S. shouldn't be negotiating at all with North Korea. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the agreement rewards North Korea for bad behavior. "It behooves critics to come up with a plan of their own, and I haven't seen one," Hill told reporters after addressing students at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1974. Under the deal, North Korea will close its main nuclear reactor, allow international inspections and begin accounting for other nuclear programs within 60 days. In return, it will receive 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, a down payment on a promised 1 million tons in oil or aid of a similar value if it ultimately disarms. The agreement is considered a breakthrough because North Korea has sidestepped previous attempts to have it disband its nuclear program. The reason the negotiations succeeded while past attempts have failed was because there were several nations at the negotiating table, Hill said. "The big difference is we have brought different countries together, including China," Hill said. "So if (North Korea) walks away from this deal, they're walking away not just from the U.S. but from all of their neighbors. And that should offer us hope that this is the right approach." The structure of the talks, with multiple countries negotiating together, could serve as a blueprint to resolve other problems in the region in the future, Hill said. While Europe has several multilateral agreements in place, eastern Asia has few, he said. "It offers some hope that we can develop some structure there," Hill said. "And since the U.S. is part of that, it offers hope that the U.S. can be a player there." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Unless the Chicoms pull the leash on their pet Pit Bull, nothing productive will come of this. Why the world MSM makes a distinction between the NKors and the PRC is a mystery to me. Would add to Alaska Paul's suggestion, a blockade of the northern borders of NKor along with the demand that the ruling class of the country abdicate & leave. Until this occurs, no aid at all. The Chinese know perfectly well how to stop a human wave invasion. This would be the end of the Westphalian System if one believes that NKor is a sovereign state (it hasn't been since its predecessor collapsed in 1950 & the PRC starting propping it up). |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-17 14:33 |
| #2 OK, Mr. Hill, your plan of giving Kimmie a bunch of oil for promises sucks the big one. I criticize, so here is a plan: 1. Kimmie and Co goes to Paris, France as exiles to live out their days. 2. The US, Chicoms, SKors, and Japan (in the background, so the Koreans don't wig out) work together to deal with the humanitarian mess Kimmie and Co left behind. 3. NORK becomes Chapter 11 under a bankruptcy trusteeship, consisting of countries in (2) above. 4. Dismantle all of NORK nuclear and missile facilities. 5. Work out an international plan to help to rebuild NORK for the benefit of their people. 6. Work out the political sh*t for the next 1000 years as a hobby. If Kimmie and Co do not want to leave, surround Nork with enough firepower to turn it into a Roentgen Soupbowl if Kimmie launches missiles and threatens the US or Japan, and let the Chicoms supply all the oil and aid that Kimmie wants. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-17 13:51 |
| #1 The main U.S. envoy at the North Korea disarmament agreement said Friday that critics should put forth their own plan rather than simply criticize the one that was hammered out in Beijing this week. Ok - Nuke'm till they glow. Since the Chinese are afraid of a wave of refugees to match that overwhelming the American southern borders, since the South Koreans are afraid of economic bankruptcy if they have to fulfill their constant whining about reunification with their blood brothers, since the Japanese are working themselves into the mood to go nuclear, and since everyone else will do really nothing but talk while the cancer spreads hoping that something magically will alter the reality, just get the pain over with now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-17 12:42 |