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To: TigerLikesRooster
This was the latest editorial from the conservative Daily "Chosun Ilbo", which made comment about Kim's tactic, revealed to the Chinese over the weekend in Pyongyang. Interesting:

"North Korea Must Discuss 'Conditions' in Six-Party Talks Kim Jong-il Willing to Return to Talks 'Anytime' Kim Jong-il's Remarks 'Positive': FM Ban North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has indicated he is willing to return to six-party talks on his country's nuclear program - if the conditions are "mature." Meeting with Wang Jiarui, the head of international liaisons of China's Communist Party who was visiting Pyongyang on Monday, Kim said, "If the conditions for the six-party talks mature through the joint efforts of our neighbors, we're ready to return to the negotiation table at any time," North Korea's official Korea Central News Agency reported. Kim expressed hope that the "United States shows its sincerity about the talks and backs it up with actions," adding, "We are committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and there is no change in our stance to resolve the issue peacefully through dialogue." How are we to take these remarks? The optimistic view is that they mean Pyongyang's imminent return to the talks; others say nothing has changed from the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Feb. 10 statement that it is indefinitely boycotting negotiations. It is meanwhile quite incomprehensible how Kim squares his "commitment" to denuclearization with Pyongyang's announcement that it already has atomic weapons. Whether North Korea returns to the talks soon, as the international community demands, depends on what Kim means by "mature conditions." It is because North Korea and the other parties to the talks have failed to agree "conditions" that the six-country talks stalled in June last year, and that the North announced its boycott. Of course, other parties to the talks should alter the conditions if that is what it takes for talks to resume. Self-restraint in hostile remarks about the North, for example, would help Pyongyang make up its mind to come back to the negotiating table. But North Korea will have to accept the basic demands, that it must stop and renounce its nuclear development programs in return for compensation. These demands are based on the complicated international reality. If the North still wants to change the conditions, it can only do so at the six-party talks. They were after all set up for the purpose of coming to an agreement. "

115 posted on 02/22/2005 9:59:09 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; All

I agree with you American I getting in more learning about psyce of North Korea and Dear Leader Little Kim

I can't wait what going what happen NEXT it like Soap opera over there with Little Kim family

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Man this better than Dallas back in 1980s


117 posted on 02/22/2005 11:18:17 AM PST by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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