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2007-04-10 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Should tell his Kimmy COD. Otherwords when you diliver the enriched uranium we pay as product is confirmed.

Posted by C-Low 2007-04-10 00:10|| 2007-04-10 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 LUCIANNE > US ENVOY > TIME RUNNING OUT FOR NORTH KOREA, to honor its obligations under the new agreement.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-10 02:36|| 2007-04-10 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 But Principi said Kim told the Americans that it would be difficult to shut down the nuclear reactor by a Saturday deadline called for in a Feb. 13 nuclear disarmament accord

Oh please sir. Just another thimblefull of Uranium!

What is so important about $25M. That's got to be pocket change to Kimmy. Is there a possibility that there is something bigger hiding behind that $25M? I'd sure consider wording that the bank could transfer out a max of $25M to NorK.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-10 03:47|| 2007-04-10 03:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Make that $30M. You want to have evidence if they cheat.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-10 03:48|| 2007-04-10 03:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Payday: N.Korea funds may be freed as nuclear deadline nears:

The United States announced on Tuesday that millions of dollars frozen in a Macau bank will soon be released to North Korea, and told Pyongyang it must now start shutting down a nuclear reactor days before a deadline.

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The reclusive state has insisted it will only close the reactor, which supplies it with weapons-grade plutonium, once $25 million dollars in funds linked to North Korean interests and frozen since 2005 in Macau's Banco Delta Asia are freed.

Under an international deal agreed two months ago to end its nuclear weapons program, North Korea has until Saturday to start shutting down its Yongbyon atomic plant.

"The United States understands that the Macau authorities are prepared to unblock all North Korean-related accounts currently frozen in Banco Delta Asia," a U.S. Treasury statement said.

A Macau Monetary Authority official said only that there would be an announcement of some kind within a "few days."

The funds were frozen after Washington accused the Macau bank of being involved in money laundering.

Furious that the money still had not been freed, North Korea walked out of a round of six-country talks on its nuclear program in March, five months after its first atomic test.

"NOW WE NEED TO MOVE ON"

The Treasury's announcement came as top U.S. officials visited both sides of the divided Korean peninsula.

"I think we've reached a very important day today with the imminent release of these funds," chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Chris Hill said in Seoul.

"Now we need to move on from this banking issue to the real purpose of our February agreement, which is to get on with denuclearization."

Drat.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-10 07:36|| 2007-04-10 07:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Richardson called it a noble humanitarian gesture that would bring comfort to American families.

I'd like to see someobdy call Kimmie on that sh*t, too - it's understood that he has hundreds of sets of remains of US and Allied troops warehoused for such 'noble' gestures.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-04-10 09:11|| 2007-04-10 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 it's understood that he has hundreds of sets of remains of US and Allied troops warehoused for such 'noble' gestures.

If this is true, Kim should qualify for trial on charges of war crimes. He has committed countless crimes against humanity and needs to hang for those as it is.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-10 12:51|| 2007-04-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Just a note on the graphic: does Kimmie choose his generals based on height - to make sure none are taller than he is?

Posted by xbalanke 2007-04-10 15:24|| 2007-04-10 15:24|| Front Page Top

#9 How about hitting a Nork city with a 1MT nuke for each day past the shutdown deadline, and keep it up until the job's done? Re-visit cities if we run out. Oh, and take out all that arty that's aimed at Seoul on the first day, subtracting one more "negotiating factor" from the equation. Gonna be rough on the south, since the wind blows that way, but it just might convince Kimmie we're serious. Nothing else seems to have worked.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-10 15:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-10 15:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Just a note on the graphic: does Kimmie choose his generals based on height - to make sure none are taller than he is?

No. He stands closer to the camera and stretches his neck up like a six-year-old. And his generals snicker at him. See? Several of them are smiling because they know. They will all go back to the Officer's Club and mock him about the jammies he's wearing later. And point at his picture over the bar and laugh at him.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-10 17:49|| 2007-04-10 17:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Man, I'll bet they'd like to do that in their Evil little hearts Gorb, but the O-Club ain't so festive.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-10 18:59|| 2007-04-10 18:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Did anyone save a copy of the shot of the returning NK soldier standing between an SK and a US soldier? He looked like a nine year old.
A quote from Kim, somebody who met him and must have done a double take: "I'm shorter than a midget's turd, aren't I?"

Posted by Grunter 2007-04-10 19:34|| 2007-04-10 19:34|| Front Page Top

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