U.S. Fails to Persuade N.Korea Back to 6-Way Talks

Chosun Ilbo News, Seoul (English) ^ | 11 December 2009 | Chosun Ilbo, Seoul, S. Korea (English)

[AmericanInTokyo]

A visit to North Korea by U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth ended in failure Thursday to convince the North to return to multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. "We identified some common understandings on the need for and the role of the six-party talks and the importance of the implementation of the 2005 Joint Statement," Bosworth told reporters.

"It remains to be seen when and how [North Korea] will return to the six-party talks." He added, "This is something that requires further consultations among all six of us." But Bosworth claimed he had "very useful" meetings with senior North Korean officials.

Further bilateral meetings are expected following negotiations with the other four members of the six-party talks. Speaking in a press conference at South Korea's Foreign Ministry after the visit, the U.S. envoy added he did not meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and had requested no such meeting. Instead, he met with First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju and top nuclear envoy Kim Kye-gwan.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Keep 'em handy, boys. You KNOW you will be back soon. "They" do, too!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

[pissant]

Obama fellating Lil Kim is one disgusting spectacle.

[jimbo123]

Another olympic fail from the socialist muslim from Kenya.

[AmericanInTokyo]

For lack of a better word, that is exactly what is going on here. And all other nations (particularly enemies) know it.

[darkwing104]

But Bosworth claimed he had "very useful" meetings with senior North Korean officials.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What ever became of the country I knew as the United States of America, the greatest nation on the earth?!

These two-bit tinhorn dictators 1/10th our power are RUNNING ROUGHSHOD ALL OVER HELPLESS UNCLE SAP because of that 馬鹿 in the White House and his cadre of Ivy League school idiots in D.C. who couldn't park their bicycles straight.

At this dark time, friends, we need THESE kinds of Americans, who would finish the 60-year old job, once and for all, and put an end to this nonsense and international cancer known as the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea":

Do I have a witness?

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[AmericanInTokyo]

Actually, the Six Party talks are a joke in the first place--built on a faulty, process-oriented premise--because it allows the Norks to keep building up their military, underground facilities and nuke/missile programs with inpunity, because "we cannot do anything to them because they are in the talks. Oh, oh, my, goodness! They will leave the sacred talks if we do anything to upset them". Not to mention that ANYTHING THE DPRK SIGN will not be adhered to. So what's the end game? What is the deliverables? Awards to State Department for their personnel files? That's about the size of it. It certainly is not regime change, liberation of the North Korean people, and obliteration of North Koreas chem, bios, nukes, missile, counterfeit, drug trade, concentration camps, kidnapping programs.

Accordingly, as always, Pyongyang have us by the huevos just as they always do. Kim il Song. Kim Jong il. So it will be with Kim Jong Un twenty years from now. It is humiliating to see this American groveling and abject knee pad action on the part of the US and its international representatives like this hear overseas. /rant off

[Jan Hus]

Just heard on Alphabet Radio @ 2100 Hrs. E.S.T. that NKPR will return to Six (6) Party Nuclear Talks. Whats Up?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It’s like a Kabuki Theater.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Incorrect it would seem. They only say that they consider the talks important but they have requests if they are to return to such talks (one big one is a Peace Treaty with the US which will be a BIG MISTAKE). So, if the drive by US media wants to say they "returned to the talks", in that sense, yes, "give us everything we want and we will return to the talks". The US seems to be slapping a slightly different headline on essentially a North Korean statement issued, which is more of the same. You have to read the DPRK statement in full for context here.

US and North side are talking apples and oranges in their separate "spin room" statements after these pointless discussions the last few days in Pyongyang by Bosworth.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I also think it is a) timed by the Norks to make Obama look good; b) excitedly but inaccurately reported by the US Media who 1) also want their fellow Communist Obama to look globally good on this specific day; and 2) have not read nor analyzed the text of the DPRK statement to see that their headlines are not in alignment with the substance of what DPRK actually said.

I have seen this time and again whenever diplomatic talks break for statements. Particularly with the Norks who can be very manipulative. One side claims "We have a deal!", or "We will return to the talks!", but it is all heavily preconditioned and the other side has not even accepted the conditions.

The US media ought to just cool down on this if you want my real opinion.

And yes, it is ALL Kabuki.

[SevenofNine]

Gee DUH you knew that going happen RIGHT

Can’t wait for Pyronagng Patty report how NK got over on this President ROFL

[AmericanInTokyo]

Its all Spin and BS. And the US media gets excited and does not know how to report it, does not know diplomacy and diplomacy speak, and PARTICULARLY does not know Asia and negotiations with the North Koreans, and therefore reports inaccurately to the American people.

This latest Bosworth installment is fundamentally no different than what happenend under eight years of Clinton (Pritchard, Albright, Richardson, Sherman, etc) and the final 2.5 years of "W" (Rice, Hill, etc). i.e. the most abject appeasement of the North Korean regime that emboldened them in their most difficult and weakened hours, when if we had the testicles to just wait them out and not help, we could have actually tipped Chia Pet and the KWP leadership over through regime change and accordingly helped liberate the long suffering, oppressed North Korean people there. Digusting. They are talking new energy and food deals as a part of this. And a freaking "Peace Treaty" for crying out loud.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah don’t forget none of this aid going to average North Koreans would go to North Korean miltary and their families