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2007-11-06 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2007-11-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 NKors Start Disabling Nuke Program ~~by taking so far produced material elsewhere... for the right price~~.

/cynic

Posted by twobyfour 2007-11-06 00:30|| http://www.twobyfour.nfo/]">[http://www.twobyfour.nfo/] 2007-11-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Various Netters remind that NK's Yongbyon is one of several NK-claimed/reported indigens nuke facilities, and the only one to be formally
"disabled", NOT destroyed, under the Six-Party auspice.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 00:36|| 2007-11-06 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Three shells and a pea scam.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-11-06 01:07|| 2007-11-06 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 At ~~least~~ most, the parts that we actually know about.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-06 01:11|| 2007-11-06 01:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Skeptics beware.

This could be the start of a real and major foreign policy victory for the US (and the Administration). Obviously its just a step but it is a major one.

Posted by mhw 2007-11-06 06:18|| 2007-11-06 06:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Skeptics beware.

As if a healthy sense of skepticism is unwarranted regarding North Korea's track record of actually following through on its promises. I'd wager only the Palestinians have made a more dismal showing in that respect. The administration had best be exceptionally careful about prematurely trumpeting this as some "major foreign policy victory". History has proven itself rather unkind to those who have previously trusted the North Koreans.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-06 07:48|| 2007-11-06 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 It's correct to be skeptical regarding NorK, but still, this is a sign of progress. Compare it to what passed for progress before: Carter, Clinton, and Halfbright.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-11-06 07:56|| 2007-11-06 07:56|| Front Page Top

#8 As Ronnie Reagan said, trust, but verify. The stooges mentioned above ( Carter, Clinton, and Halfbright + I might add the UN ) only wanted to tout themselves as diplomats, regardless of their non-results.

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-11-06 11:50|| 2007-11-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I get the feeling what they're doing is the same as pulling a single cotterpin and pronouncing "It can't run now". (But Cotterpins are cheap and quickly replaced.)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-11-06 12:50|| 2007-11-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 TOPIX/CHOSUN ILBO > STRIPPED DOWN/AUSTERE WARSHIP SPOTTED IN NORTH KOREAN HARBOR. Its a Cold War Soviet = Russ KRIVAK-class, spotted by Google Earth in NK harbor of Nampo. Just in time - also from TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA PLANS ROUTINE BMD EXERCISES, vv threats from the NOKORS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 23:01|| 2007-11-06 23:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Yep they're dismantling it because there is a rumor that an unnamed facility in an unnamed part of an unnamed Syrian Dictator's country is in need of repair parts.

Otherwise, look in the yellow pages under nuclear materials.

Do you suppose that the Iranians would like some good low mileage enriched uranium?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-11-06 23:02|| 2007-11-06 23:02|| Front Page Top

#12 ION, TOPIX > DAILY ESTIMATE > EXPANDING THE [US] NUCLEAR NAVY. USG/House 2008 budget debate. All nuke power, all the time, forever.* YET ANOTHER REASON WHY I TELL GUAM LOCALS THAT GUAM'S SELF-DETERMINATION ISSUE vv USA IS PARAMOUNT, + THAT GUAM'S WASH DELEGATE + GOVT NEEDS TO CEMENT GUAM AS A SPACEPORT/SPACEPLANE PORT - NOW, NOT TOMORROW. That GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE, GMD-TMD, SEA BASING-MOB, etal., once made cheap effective and mass producable, means the USAF in LR will likely be the last of the major [non-Grunt] US armed services to still have utility for Guam, and be the last to leave besides NASA/SPAWAR.
But hey, I'm just a simple Madonna fan from Guam - what do I know or remember [Paula Abdul]5, 10 - 40 yarns ago!? BIG TECHS, WINNING BATTLES, TELLING THE TRUTH, ETC. > PROB EXPLAINS WHY I'M NOT A GENERAL OR ADMIRAL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 23:21|| 2007-11-06 23:21|| Front Page Top

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