Posted on 07/18/2006 8:42:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North calls alert, U.S. and Korea plan 5-way talks
July 19, 2006 ¤Ñ North Korea has ordered wartime mobilization preparation for its soldiers and citizens, a senior intelligence official said yesterday. The order was delivered to military and civilian leaders just after midnight Sunday, four hours before the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning the North's arms and missile programs.
President Roh Moo-hyun convened a meeting of his security officials today to discuss that mobilization order and other issues stemming from the UN resolution. The order, which was not broadcast by radio or television, was the first in 13 years. In March 1993, readiness was increased as North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The intelligence official said he assessed the order, in Kim Jong-il's name, as an effort to rally the nation behind him. He said soldiers were recalled to barracks, camouflage was being rolled out and civilian travel had been restricted.
In Washington, the South Korean and U.S. representatives at the six-party talks on North Korean nuclear issues said yesterday they agreed on the value of a session of those talks even without North Korea present.
Greeted by reporters as they left a luncheon meeting, Chun Young-woo and Christopher Hill said such a meeting might keep some momentum alive in the moribund negotiating forum. Pyongyang has boycotted those talks since last autumn.
The two men said no date has been set; indeed, China, the host of the negotiating forum, appears to be ambivalent at best about a meeting sans North Korea. Mr. Hill told reporters that the other five nations in the talks ¡ª Russia, China, South Korea, Japan and the United States ¡ª wanted to give North Korea some time to consider the implications of the United Nations Security Council resolution adopted last weekend condemning its missile tests and calling on it to return to the six-way talks.
He repeated that Washington would sit down for discussions with Pyongyang only in the context of those six-way talks.
Mr. Chun said he was confident that Beijing would eventually agree to a five-way meeting.
"Russia will pose no problem and China seems to have become more flexible in recent days," he said, "but we have to keep consulting."
by Lee Young-jong, Lee Sang-il
Ping!
Hmmm...timing this with whatever Iran is about to do...trying to cause trouble in more then one theatre of operations.
"There will be wars, and rumors of war."
The ronery one must be feeling very neglected these days. All the attention is off him and his fireworks show, now focused on Lebanon. He will have to trump that if he wants the limelight back - and that's not good.
Now is not the time for them to be yanking our chain.
this is combined with that iranian threat
why doesn't the reporter get it right?
the chi-coms have ordered the pot bellied lassie eater to put his troops on military alert.
The gospel been published in all nations yet?
Worst case:
Iran nukes Israel, N. Korea moves, and China goes apeshit somewhere (Taiwan)?
And Hezbollah and/or other third columnists strike in the US homeland.
Jeff, how does it feel to be right...?
N. Korea have one step away from declaring full wartime situation. I think they will declare it in time, when U.S. turns up more pressure and N. Korea launches another set of missiles. They will do it if only for reasserting control over population.
Yea, I just noticed that thread. This is starting to look like coordination for some future event.
Funny thing I ready in Coulter's book. The one item that seemed to tip the 2000 presidential election in Bush's favor was the number of cuban-americans who showed great disdain towards Gore for his administration's handling of Elian Gonzalez return to cuba. A small boy who, through divine intervention, floated for two days in the middle of the ocean to be saved.
Was Bush "picked" to lead the U.S. at a time when his type of leadership was going to be needed? He doesn't make decisions based on polls. He does it probably in the same manner that Reagan made decisions towards confronting the former Soviet Union. Because he believes it is the right thing to do. He named North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as the axis of evil. Who can say that this claim is wrong, now that we know all that we know?
No, but I need help trying to get a Koran out of my toilet. I really have to go.
TLR, where are you? If the balloon goes up in N.K. and Syria, things will get very interesting.
Seems NK and Iran/Lebanon are getting cued by the same puppet master.
Amen
"The gospel been published in all nations yet?"
Who needs publishing when the internet is available in all organized nation-states. I think I hear faint trumpets...
"The gospel been published in all nations yet?"
Who needs publishing when the internet is available in all organized nation-states. I think I hear faint trumpets...
They have been working together for a long time.
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