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North Korea offers talks on missile threat: report
Agence France-Presse ^ | June 21, 2006

Posted on 06/20/2006 8:03:41 PM PDT by HAL9000

SEOUL : A top North Korean official has offered talks with the United States on Pyongyang's plans for a missile test, indicating that a launch could be put off, Yonhap news agency reported here on Wednesday.

"The United States says it is concerned about our missile test launch. Our position is, 'Okay then, let's talk about it,'" Han Song-Ryol, the deputy chief of North Korea's mission to the United Nations, told Yonhap.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; mesoronry; missile; mushroomcloud; northkorea; nuclearweapons; proliferation; pyongyang; taepodong; taepodong2
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1 posted on 06/20/2006 8:03:44 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

In other words, they want us to give them stuff. It's nuclear blackmail.


2 posted on 06/20/2006 8:04:37 PM PDT by inkling
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To: HAL9000

Take care of it right there on the pad.


3 posted on 06/20/2006 8:09:22 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: HAL9000

Hows to translate "mierde de Toro" to KorCommese?


4 posted on 06/20/2006 8:12:26 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: HAL9000
The typical talk tactic. I believe they are now concerned about having Kim's little toy shot down before its full propaganda potential has been realized.
5 posted on 06/20/2006 8:13:08 PM PDT by Pox (If it's a Coward you are searching for, you need look no further than the Democrats.)
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To: HAL9000

Is this why FEMA is going around exhorting people to get prepared for a disaster?


6 posted on 06/20/2006 8:13:53 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: Pox

Yup!


7 posted on 06/20/2006 8:16:12 PM PDT by cmsgop ( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
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To: HAL9000
Kyodo News -

N. Korea wants talks with U.S. to ease tension over missile launch

(Kyodo) - North Korea's deputy mission chief at the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, said his country wants talks with the United States to ease tensions over the North's possible test-firing of a long-range missile, Yonhap News Agency reported from New York on Wednesday.

"Our position is to solve the problem through talks (with the United States)," Han said in a telephone interview with Yonhap, adding, "We are well aware of the U.S. being concerned about our missile test-firing."

Han also said the missile moratorium his country has adhered to since 1999 applies when talks between his country and the United States are under way.

"It is not true some say our missile test-firing is a violation of the moratorium because we had put a temporary halt to missile firing when talks were being held to improve relations with the United States and Japan at that time," Han was quoted as saying.

Han stressed North Korea, as a sovereign state, not only has a right to develop, deploy and test a missile, and also has the right to export missiles, Yonhap said.


8 posted on 06/20/2006 8:22:46 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: StAnDeliver

Yeah, it is time to stop playing footse with the Don King of the east (with apologies to Don King). Let's warm up the launch pad to 3000 degrees.


9 posted on 06/20/2006 8:26:54 PM PDT by calmseas
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To: HAL9000

Talking serves no purpose where the NK government is concerned. I watched a documentary on N. Korea last year. Human life has absolutely no value, there. Children picked though dirt for crumbs left behind by soldiers eating food. People scavenged grass, bark, bugs....anything they could to have something to eat. The brutality of the regime is incomprehensible. It's truly a Hell on Earth. You cannot have any discussions with people who do these things to their own citizens.


10 posted on 06/20/2006 8:38:28 PM PDT by edpc
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To: HAL9000

Talkin' time is over. Killin' time's begun.............FRegards


11 posted on 06/20/2006 8:46:06 PM PDT by gonzo (I'm as confused as a hungry baby in a topless club...)
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"People scavenged grass, bark, bugs....anything they could to have something to eat. The brutality of the regime is incomprehensible. It's truly a Hell on Earth. You cannot have any discussions with people who do these things to their own citizens."

Are you talking about the genocide of non-muslims in Darfur being blessed and commited by the moo-slimes who run the Govt of Sudan?

Or is that a subject to be diverted, if possible?


12 posted on 06/20/2006 8:59:27 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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"Is this why FEMA is going around exhorting people to get prepared for a disaster?"

Nah. That's called hurricane season.

13 posted on 06/20/2006 9:02:25 PM PDT by blam
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To: Rembrandt

"Hows to translate "mierde de Toro" to KorCommese?"

SLBM


14 posted on 06/20/2006 9:10:55 PM PDT by Nickey (Loose Lips Sink Ships.)
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To: blam

Nope, its not hurricanes. They've been real busy out here in California.


15 posted on 06/20/2006 10:10:54 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: HAL9000

Map shows possible range of North Korea missile. (AP Graphic)


16 posted on 06/20/2006 10:37:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Wanna help kick some liberal arse? It's not just a job here at FR, IT's an obsession.)
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To: NormsRevenge

as Joan Rivers oft said..

"Can we talk?"


17 posted on 06/20/2006 10:37:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Wanna help kick some liberal arse? It's not just a job here at FR, IT's an obsession.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks, I was wondering about that.

Now, we've got war games going in Okinawa, and FEMA is running around saying California failed our disaster preparendness test.

We likely have missiles pointed at us. Has the department of homeland security raised the threat level yet?


18 posted on 06/20/2006 11:07:48 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: hedgetrimmer

No, we're still at chartreuse or mauve..


19 posted on 06/20/2006 11:08:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Wanna help kick some liberal arse? It's not just a job here at FR, IT's an obsession.)
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To: edpc
Human life has absolutely no value, there. Children picked though dirt for crumbs left behind by soldiers eating food. People scavenged grass, bark, bugs....anything they could to have something to eat. The brutality of the regime is incomprehensible. It's truly a Hell on Earth.

Here is a wonderful collection of photos taken by a "tourist" of North Korea posted on another thread yesterday. Read when you have some time, it's very enlightening and will make you appreciate the "small things" in life. Like running water and electricity...

Photo tour of North Korea. The land of "bleak and depressing"...

20 posted on 06/21/2006 3:02:05 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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