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| Seoul, Washington Resolved to Outwit Nork Tactics | |||
| 2009-09-18 | |||
The two allies are apparently determined to maintain sanctions against the North until it denuclearizes. They believe their mistake in the past has been a piecemeal approach to negotiations that immediately rewarded the North for every small, reversible step.
"This government too will maintain the existing policy of faithfully implementing sanctions against the North until it takes verifiable steps to end its nuclear program." At the same time, we'll keep the dialogue door open to persuade the North to return to the six-party talks," he added. A senior government official said, "There will be no compensation until North Korea takes action to denuclearize." All the signs are that Seoul and Washington are determined not to fall again for the North's cycle of provocations, conciliatory gestures and stalling for time to win concessions. As a senior government official has suggested, South Korea and the U.S. need "basic changes to the larger framework in their approach to the North Korean nuclear issue." North Korea has often avoided sanctions by agreeing to dialogue, slicing the denuclearization process into smaller stages, from "shutdown," via "disablement" to "dismantlement," and pulling out before the process is complete. A Cheong Wa Dae official said, "We won't engage in talks that might result in stage-by-stage agreements like the statement of principles in the fourth round of the six-party in Sept. 19, 2005, or talks that led to an agreement on reversible disablement like the Feb. 13, 2007 deal." Prof. Kim Sung-han of Korea University said Seoul and Washington would "conduct talks to launch a North Korean version of the Marshall Plan," the large-scale economic aid program for postwar Europe, "as well as security guarantees if the North goes directly to the stage of verifiable dismantlement and completely removes its nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and nuclear facilities overseas."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #13 There's even a few who think he's doing a good job, which just goes to show .... "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." -- Abe Lincoln At least I hope not. I think a lot of the hopey change crowd are starting to realize who the rubes are. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-09-18 18:49 |
| #12 There's even a few who think he's doing a good job, which just goes to show ... I'm imagining a "man in the street" interview where the man turns out to be Vladimir Putin. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-09-18 17:15 |
| #11 There's even a few who think he's doing a good job, which just goes to show .... |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-18 16:20 |
| #10 I really don't thik Oblahblahblah has the brains to outwit a 5 year oldtrick or treater. but he did manage to outwit a rather large portion of the electorate. :( |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-09-18 13:59 |
| #9 anyway to get back on topic, this appears to be a sensible policy in northeast Asia. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-09-18 10:25 |
| #8 "As for the missile shield, I understand Oblahblah is planning on having ships with SM-3s deployed to defend these countries, so he's supposedly just trading land-based systems for sea-based. What makes me wonder about all this is that Russia seems to be rolling over for it." The Russians dont care about the missiles, which, as the Bush admin correctly said, couldnt stop a Russian attack anyway. The Russians care about stopping the precedent of a NATO presence on the ground in the Visograd states. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-09-18 10:25 |
| #7 I really don't thik Oblahblahblah has the brains to outwit a 5 year old trick or treater. Kinda makes you wonder how he got elected president, doesn't it? Or better yet, it kinda makes you wonder why the US isn't on the bottom of the heap yet. As for the missile shield, I understand Oblahblah is planning on having ships with SM-3s deployed to defend these countries, so he's supposedly just trading land-based systems for sea-based. What makes me wonder about all this is that Russia seems to be rolling over for it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-09-18 10:18 |
| #6 They have proposed the Russians join NATO. We better think of something good in return--really good. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-09-18 09:47 |
| #5 After all, Obama just outwitted the Russians. He threw the Poles and Czechs under the bus in exchange for .... Uh, he got concessions to ... The Russians offered us .... Well, he's darn clever that Obama is, smart diplomacy, ummm nuanced, yeah ... clever. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-09-18 06:45 |
| #4 If yesterday was any indication, the SKors better be the brains of this collaboration. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-18 06:27 |
| #3 Obama Adviser (NorK Czar): I know! Let's pull COMPLETELY out of South Korea! That will freak North Korea right out and completely befuddle them! Obama: Great idea! Get Murtha on the phone, we can move them to Okinawa and I hear he has some connections there. I knew there was a reason I paid you the big bucks! |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-09-18 01:52 |
| #2 ION YAHOO NEWS > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREA WANTS RECOGNITION AS A NUCLEAR STATE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-18 01:35 |
| #1 I really don't thik Oblahblahblah has the brains to outwit a 5 year oldtrick or treater. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-18 01:01 |