North Korea's Reverse (Compost urges economic sanction?)

WP ^ | 09/25/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

North Korea's Reverse

The framework for dismantling the world's most dangerous nuclear program is crumbling.

Thursday, September 25, 2008; A18

IN JUNE, the Bush administration's diplomacy with North Korea finally produced the video clip negotiators had long hoped for: that showing the demolition of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Now, it appears that that picture, which suggested that North Korea's dismantling of its nuclear infrastructure was irreversible, may have been misleading. Yesterday, the secretive communist regime ejected U.N. nuclear inspectors from Yongbyon and announced that it planned to reactivate a reprocessing plant that produces plutonium for weapons. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear material may be brought back into the facility within a week.

This provocative action triggered a familiar discussion among experts about what North Korea might be up to. Is it trying to bluff the West and its partners in the "six-party" negotiations into making further concessions? Are hard-liners in the regime of Kim Jong Il trying to reverse its commitment to denuclearize in exchange for economic and political concessions? And is Mr. Kim himself still running the country? The reclusive dictator reportedly suffered a stroke in mid-August and has not been seen in public since.

[TigerLikesRooster]

You guys are always slow. Did you really think that N. Korea would keep its side of bargain? Oh, wait, you really did. I forgot that you have been such imbeciles. You have been consistently wrong and we have been consistently right.

Not bad for foreign policy amateurs, don't you think?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[SevenofNine]

DUH somebody waking up LOL!

[steveyp]

US Boomer surfaces off of NK coast, crew waves at camera and submerses.

Let the people of NK boil grass until the govt collapses.

[tanuki]

I know PTA ladies who are better negotiators than these clod-hoppers have proven themselves to be. Now that we have one running as Veep, maybe things will soon look up.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bushbots here on FR, rare visitors to the Korea/North Korea threads in the first place, all piled on in robotic, unthinking, naive support of Christopher Hill signing that piece of shit in Beijing on behalf of the Bush Administration with the DPRK--something they reamed Madeline Albright for doing years early (and rightfully so).

Real professionals knew otherwise regarding such abjectly embarrassing and potentially dangerous Bush-Condi Legacy Deals with Pyongyang.

[nw_arizona_granny]

No, I’m not surprised.