| The baby throws another rattle to the floor. |
North Korea said Friday the standoff over its atomic ambitions was on the brink of nuclear war as US Vice President Dick Cheney headed to the region for talks with key Asian allies. The Stalinist state's official news agency accused Washington of "driving the military situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war" with plans for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea.
| Great wharks! AFP just called the NKors "Stalinist"! Ethel, my pills! |
Cheney is expected in Tokyo on Saturday on the first leg of an Asian tour that also takes him to China and South Korea. North Korea described six-party talks held in Beijing in February as "fruitless," their harshest assessment so far of the meeting that brought together the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.
| And accurate, since that's how they were supposed to turn out. |
"The US demand that the DPRK (North Korea) scrap its nuclear programme first is the main obstacle in the way of solving the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the US," the Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary. "It is a well-known fact that the second round of the six-way talks held in Beijing last February proved fruitless due to the US demand that the DPRK dismantle its nuclear program first." A new round of six-party talks is expected before the end of June while working parties are supposed to be set up to resolve address contentious issues. South Korea's foreign ministry said all participating countries were ready for working level talks apart from North korea, which has yet to give the go ahead. In the commentary the North Korean news agency said Pyongyang had no choice but to boost its nuclear weapons drive in the face of US intransigence and its "moves to put the strategy of pre-emptive nuclear attack into practice."
| Sure, whatever. I'm headed to the mall for a triple fudge ripple Sundae. Any of you NKors hungry? |
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