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U.S. announces diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea
The Envoy via Yahoo ^
| 29 Feb 2012
| Laura Rozen
Posted on 02/29/2012 12:09:39 PM PST by Repeat Offender
The United States announced a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea Wednesday.
Under an agreement reached in direct talks in Beijing last week, North Korea has agreed to allow the return of nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile tests, nuclear tests, and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities, the State Department said. In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a large food aid package.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buyingtheasianvote; dprk; entitlements; feedtheworld; foodstamps; iaea; intitlements; northkorea
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Time for the new kid to try his hand at an old scam....nuke for food with the US. Must be Rush Week at the DPRK.
remains to be seen whether the North will keep its promises this time
Why is is that whenever democraps sit in the White Hut, the US foreign policy is to act like some abused spouse?
He only beats me because he loves me.......
He's going through a tough time right now......
It is my fault; he promised he won't do it again......
To: Repeat Offender
Where’s the picture of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:12:25 PM PST
by
bkopto
(Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: Repeat Offender
In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a large food aid package.
I hope Michelle O. inspects it first to ensure those North Koreans won't be eating too many calories or too much sodium.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:13:04 PM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
To: Repeat Offender
The very definition of insanity and idiocy.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:13:07 PM PST
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
To: Repeat Offender
Yeah, it worked so well before. Clinton had a chance to stop them from getting the bomb. Anyone remember what happened?
Here is a refresher:
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:13:59 PM PST
by
Dogbert41
("...or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. " -Jesus)
To: Repeat Offender
So ahhh, let me get this straight. The deal will work like this:
1) North Korea will allow UN type inspectors who will inspect the cat-and-mouse NK nuclear program.
2) This will go on for years.
3) The United States will provide billions of food aid and other aid over the next multiple decades.
4) Absolutely no progress will ever be made with NK giving up or even reducing their nuclear program.
Have I left anything out? have we not seen this play over and over again?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:15:04 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATMs?)
To: Repeat Offender
North Korea has agreed to allow the return of nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile tests, nuclear tests, and nuclear activities at Yongbyon Of course they'll let them inspect Yongbyon. They've moved everything to another site.
Suckers.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:15:51 PM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: Repeat Offender
What are we giving away this time and what is it going to cost us?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:17:14 PM PST
by
trailhkr1
To: bkopto; FrankR
Wheres the picture of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown? It's in the photo shop for updates....Lucy is now pulling a soccer ball away from an effeminate Franklin. (how I wish I was that good with photoshop; Frank?).
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:17:29 PM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: bkopto
Diplomatic breakthrough #67!
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:18:00 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: bkopto
It's dejue-vue all over again. First they agree to stopping their weapons programs in exchange for food and fuel. then when the Summers comes and they've regained their strength they'll restart their programs. Been there done that.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:20:06 PM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: Repeat Offender
And here I thought we were out of money.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:22:11 PM PST
by
keats5
(Not all of us are hypnotized.)
To: Repeat Offender
Where have I heard this story, oh yeah, all the other times the norks sell the same garbage. They let in inspectors, the inspectors see only what the norks want them to see, and the West provides the norks with free food to prop up their gulag state. Then the norks kick the inspectors out, a new round of ‘negotiations’ follow and we repeat the exercise again.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:24:38 PM PST
by
jimnm
To: bkopto
To: Dogbert41
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:28:32 PM PST
by
DCBryan1
(Id rather have a man who wrecked his marriage as POTUS than a man who wrecked his country!)
To: jimnm
This is NOT a trade. A trade infers BOTH sides get something. How about we TRADE the food for the actual NUCLEAR BOMBS?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:30:14 PM PST
by
LC Gladiator
(Barack Obama is a malevolent Marxist cockroach and a foul festering pustule on the hide of America.)
To: Repeat Offender
The international politics version of a two year old in a grocery store. They want something, are told they can’t have it, throw a tantrum, then are bribed into behaving. It never seems to occur to our “smart” politicians that all they’re doing is encouraging more misbehavior.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:31:15 PM PST
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: All
so lil kim Jr wants us to give him food so he can feed his army while offering to stop barring inspectors from sham facilities filled with guys wearing useless disposable white hats..
And he promises not to fire off missiles until the next one..
This is like Lucy and the football.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:33:27 PM PST
by
newnhdad
(Soylent green is people..)
To: Repeat Offender
This is what?... the 23rd breakthrough? As soon as they get the food, all bets are off.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:33:48 PM PST
by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
To: jimnm
This time the Norks will try to lock a long term deal in with the Kenyan giving away the store.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:34:22 PM PST
by
lodi90
To: Repeat Offender
This has worked out so well before. /s
Can we send the Michelle Obama's food police along?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:34:41 PM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Santorum: 18-point loss, voted for Sotomayor, proposed $550M on top of $900M Amtrak budget...)
To: bkopto
To: Repeat Offender
Why the hell do WE have to feed them? China is a wealthy state sitting right next door, how about THEY buy the food from us for a change and give it to them? This is total BS, the champagne corks are being popped by the party elites in Norkland right now toasting another dumbass move by our State department. When will we ever learn???
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:40:46 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Repeat Offender
"we start bombing in five minutes" - President Ronald Reagan
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:40:59 PM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: Repeat Offender
In exchange for tons of food, North Korea is promising to do a better job hiding its nuclear weapons program from the UN. I can’t imagine that it’s very difficult.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:42:39 PM PST
by
Spok
(Who is Sam Zemurray?)
To: newzjunkey
Can we send the Michelle Obama's food police along? We wouldn't want to take her razor-like focus away from destroying We the People's rights.......besides, they don't like her to travel in Air Farce 1 unless absolutely necessary; you think they want to be perceived as jet-setting around wasting taxpayer money?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:43:09 PM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: Repeat Offender
Inside of two or three months, the Norks will violate whatever terms they agree to... then demand additional food aid as the ticket back to the negotiating table.
Damn, they see us coming every time, don’t they?
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:46:47 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(GOP, meet Courage... Courage, meet GOP.)
To: Repeat Offender
We've been sold another bad batch of Kim-chi.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:48:19 PM PST
by
AU72
To: Repeat Offender
B.S.! Look for NK to pull the football out from Charlie Brown on the day after the Nov elections!
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:53:15 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: Repeat Offender
The meeting took place in Munich on 29th September, 1938. Desperate to avoid war, and anxious to avoid an alliance with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier agreed that Germany could have the Sudetenland. In return, Hitler promised not to make any further territorial demands in Europe.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmunich.htm
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:59:49 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: Obadiah
Have I left anything out? have we not seen this play over and over again?Yes. #5 The food goes to the elite and the military. The average comrade will see none of it.
Lather, rinse, repete...
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:05:29 PM PST
by
Drill Thrawl
(Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
To: prairiebreeze
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:06:35 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Who are you and what have you done with Ann Coulter?!)
To: Repeat Offender
Under an agreement reached in direct talks in Beijing last week, North Korea has agreed to make empty promises and tell soothing lies in return for tangible consideration.
To: Repeat Offender
In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a large food aid package.Here we go again!
This time without the money to back up our foolishness.
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:36:18 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Repeat Offender
Once they get some food shipments, they will go right back to it.
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:38:31 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Repeat Offender
This deal actually looks okay, provided there’s one term added to it:
We do the inspections first. We like what we see, we’ll feed you. We don’t, well, you continue to starve.
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:40:16 PM PST
by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: Obadiah
#5) Everyone with an IQ over their shoe size knows the American taxpayer is getting scammed, but Obama does it anyway.
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:45:48 PM PST
by
MindBender26
(New Army SF and Ranger Slogan: Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord.... but He subcontracts!)
To: Repeat Offender
The nuclear extortion continues.........
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posted on
02/29/2012 1:50:51 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
To: Repeat Offender
U.S. announces diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea Both sides have agreed they are run by Communists.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:14:09 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
To: Dogbert41
Don’t forget that old dumb-ass Carter in the equation.
If I remember accurately, he beat all of our officials there.
“Peace in our time” comes to mind.
We were finally getting somewhat serious, and Carter short circuited all of it. N. K. went on to do exactly what it had been doing.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:21:42 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: Repeat Offender
Diplomatic breakthrough my eye. This will play out as it always does. We’ll keep our end of the bargain and the North Koreans will breach theirs.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:24:08 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Repeat Offender
In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a large food aid package. F'em... We'll give you food when you dismantle the nuke processing plants. Not before.
If we're going to send in "inspectors" send them in with the food and ensure the goods are going to the population and not just the politicos and military
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:26:12 PM PST
by
hattend
(Jesus wants me to make churches pay for abortions. - Barack Obama)
To: Dogbert41
Here is a refresher: Just to be complete, this goes with any refresher course:
Half-bright
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:27:28 PM PST
by
C210N
To: Repeat Offender
Perhaps, but what if their new dear leader is actually a GOOD MAN?
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:28:41 PM PST
by
IamCenny
To: MindBender26
Don’t be so sure.
Talking to a fried right now, who’s saying that we should try it with him because it’s not the same leader. Sigh......I hope that he will honor the deal, but it won’t happen. Screwed, again. Thanks Obama.
Personally, I don’t want to feed a bunch of North Koreans.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:29:06 PM PST
by
IamCenny
To: All; Repeat Offender
If we are borrowing money from China to give to North Korea, why don’t we just have China give them the aid directly?
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:31:08 PM PST
by
LachlanMinnesota
(Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)
To: Obadiah
Have I left anything out?
Yep, they will call us things like Iperialist scum etc ect.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:39:37 PM PST
by
Leep
(Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
To: Repeat Offender
It should read:
In return, the oslama administration promises to continue the implementation of the North Korean form of government.
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:41:18 PM PST
by
waus
(FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
To: Dogbert41
Who’s the guy on the left?
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:42:48 PM PST
by
Batman11
(Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
To: All
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posted on
02/29/2012 2:46:51 PM PST
by
warsaw44
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