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| N.Korea Makes Shift in Nuclear Talks Demand |
| 2003-04-13 |
Nope. Not a sight you want to see when you're relying on an Army Based Policy™... Washington — which lumps communist North Korea in an "axis of evil" with Iraq and Iran for seeking weapons of mass destruction — wants multilateral talks that also include regional players South Korea, Japan, Russia and China. "If the U.S. is ready to make a bold switchover in its Korea policy for a settlement of the nuclear issue, the DPRK will not stick to any particular dialogue format," the official KCNA news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying. "Really. Whatever's fair. We don't mind..." "North Korea has recently started showing a change in its attitude in a gradual and indirect way," said Kim Jung-roh, deputy spokesman at the South Korean Unification Ministry. "Also, as the Iraq war is coming to an end faster than expected, North Korea has less options to take." Thanks to John for the headzup! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Is it the full switchover from PAC2 to PAC3 Patriots? |
| Posted by: Don 2003-04-13 23:12:49 |
| #2 If the U.S. is ready to make a bold switchover in its Korea policy... The switchover being.... Wait a minit! Lemmie guess! The insistence on Multilateral talks, right? Am I right?? Huh? Am I? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-13 14:13:56 |
| #1 The communist doctrine calls "negotiations" "War by other means", the way we describe war as "diplomacy by force". We talked with North Korea every week for 50 years now, at Panmunjom. It's gotten us nowhere. I hate to say it, but the only thing North Korea will be moved by is for Russia and China to remove the life support. Only when that happens will there be TRUE negotiations with the DPRK. We need to begin putting pressure on Russia and China to give us a hand here. Both have far more to lose than they do to gain by continuing to prop up Kim. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-13 13:12:10 |