Posted on 10/09/2008 7:16:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. to take North Korea off terrorist list in Oct - Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States has told Japan that it will remove North Korea from its terrorist blacklist this month, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, quoting unidentified Japanese government sources.
The report follows talks in Tokyo on Wednesday between Japan's top negotiator on North Korean nuclear issues and U.S. special envoy Sung Kim.
A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said he could not immediately comment on the report.
Kyodo reported that U.S. envoy Christopher Hill, in talks in North Korea earlier this month, agreed that Washington would not make verification of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment programme or proliferation activities a condition of delisting.
Hill also agreed that first verification of the North's plutonium-related activities listed by Pyongyang in June would be conducted, Kyodo reported.
The United States agreed to continue food support begun in June and asked Japan to consider helping with such humanitarian aid, Kyodo said.
Prime Minister Taro Aso had been informed of the U.S. decision and that Sung Kim had apparently conveyed it to Japan's top negotiator on North Korean nuclear issues, Akitaka Saiki, in talks on Wednesday in Tokyo, Kyodo said.
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Just in time for NK’s fall rocket show over the Yellow Sea.
It still sounds provisional ...
“Hill also agreed that first verification of the North’s plutonium-related activities listed by Pyongyang in June would be conducted, Kyodo reported.”
“Washington said it would take North Korea off the terrorism list, bringing economic and diplomatic benefits, once a system had been agreed to verify Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.”
You gotta be kidding me. After the missle testing? After re-neging on the nuclear reactor?
This make no sense at all.
Ohhh, it makes sense ALL RIGHT!!
Indeed. It seems that any sort of “wrong” news gets canned rather quickly these days.
Will we see Il or is he too ill?
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Kim Jong-il.
As early as tomorrow per FNC just now.
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Another fiasco ...thanks for the ping.
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