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Obama Administration Preparing Incentives Package for North Korea
Fox News ^ | 21 July 2009 | James Rosen

Posted on 07/21/2009 3:35:39 PM PDT by edpc

BANGKOK -- The Obama administration is consulting with allies on a new "comprehensive package" of incentives aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs, senior U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday.

The officials, who are traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Thailand, told reporters that the package is only in its early stages and will not be offered to North Korea unless and until the allies sign off on it. Pyongyang would also have to first take specific, concrete and "irreversible" steps to begin destroying its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoasia; bhonukes; hillary; nknukes; northkorea; obama; soshillary
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Any mention of "Hillary Clinton" and "package" in a story makes me think of the 90s era Spy Magazine cover.

This story is hardly comforting, given the Obama Administration (appeasers and buffoons in their own right) is full of Clinton retreads.....the gang who gave us the Agreed Framework and NK nukes.

1 posted on 07/21/2009 3:35:40 PM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

Here we go again...


2 posted on 07/21/2009 3:36:58 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: edpc

“I approve”

~ Neville Chamberlain


3 posted on 07/21/2009 3:37:26 PM PDT by dynachrome (I am Jim Thompson!)
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North Koreans get incentives, Honduran Bolivarianists get support, the American people get the shaft.


4 posted on 07/21/2009 3:37:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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North Korea gets incentives, Honduras gets pressured.

I’m confused.


5 posted on 07/21/2009 3:38:08 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: pissant

Maybe we should start by offering Kim Jong Il, that super-duper public option health care package.


6 posted on 07/21/2009 3:38:38 PM PDT by newheart (Obama. We kind of underestimated the creepiness.)
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To: edpc

Hello McFly? Been there, done that.


7 posted on 07/21/2009 3:41:08 PM PDT by AU72
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To: coconutt2000; tet68

Excellent points on Honduras.


8 posted on 07/21/2009 3:41:08 PM PDT by edpc (01010111 01010100 01000110 00111111)
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To: pissant

Funny, Obama can craft a wide sweeping health care package in weeks ... but none for the North Koreans?


9 posted on 07/21/2009 3:42:25 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: edpc

More diplomacy by bribery.


10 posted on 07/21/2009 3:43:32 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: edpc

I know the kind of “package” I want the US to give to North Korea


11 posted on 07/21/2009 3:43:32 PM PDT by rbbeachkid (The ONLY ones able to fix the economy - Small Business Owners!)
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To: edpc

I know it seems kind of silly but it as if Obama has no clue who are friends are and who our enemies are. He reaches out to our enemies and our competitors with incentives and criticizes and pressures our allies, our natural allies, and our friends.

Before long we’ll have a world filled with former allies and former friends and our enemies will still be our enemies. (That’s why they call them enemies.)


12 posted on 07/21/2009 3:44:51 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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And is there any wonder why NK keeps coming back for more “incentives” while not once meeting their obligations... It is simply an extortion racket that works with the gullible so they keep using it...
13 posted on 07/21/2009 3:45:15 PM PDT by DB
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Fact: Incentives didn’t work the first, second, third, or fourth time they were tried.

Bambi-’RAT Conclusion: Let’s try it again!

Analysis: our government is insane.


14 posted on 07/21/2009 3:46:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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Why don’t we just bail out every friggin’ country in the world while we’re at it!


15 posted on 07/21/2009 3:47:00 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Rest in peace, Mary Jo.)
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The U.S. is like one fat gift to NOKO: We just keep giving, conceding, giving, conceding, and giving.


16 posted on 07/21/2009 3:50:10 PM PDT by cranked
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I am the only person here who remembers we did this under Clinton and it didn’t work? We, South Korea and Japan provided North Korea with nuclear reactors to generate electricity, and threw in huge amount of fuel oil; North Korea “promised” to conform to nonproliferation rules, get rid of its spent fuel rods, international inspections, etc. We honored our part of the bargain, they didn’t. Why are we doing this again. And surely Mrs. Clinton should remember what happened. The only way to deal with these people is to shut down their money, shut down their access to their money like Bush did with their Malayasian bank account, and which I seem to remember brought them to heel for a time.


17 posted on 07/21/2009 3:53:50 PM PDT by La Lydia
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Obama I wil give you an incentive!! GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!


18 posted on 07/21/2009 3:56:26 PM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: edpc
Some things just irritate me!

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19 posted on 07/21/2009 3:58:15 PM PDT by vortigern
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To: pissant

A call has been put in for Jimmy Carter and Albright to head the negotiations. It worked so well the last time.


20 posted on 07/21/2009 4:00:42 PM PDT by kabar
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