Posted on 10/10/2006 3:37:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea wants to talk
Gerard McManus and agencies
October 10, 2006 12:00am
A NORTH Korean official said Pyongyang is willing to return to international arms talks and abandon its atomic program if the US takes "corresponding measures," reports suggest.
"The nuclear test is an expression of our intention to face the United States across the negotiating table," the unnamed official said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
"What we want is security of the (North), including guaranteeing our system."
Yonhap didn't say how or where it contacted the official, or why no name was given.
The official didn't elaborate on what the corresponding measures would be.
But one of them is believed to be a long-standing North Korean demand that Washington lift financial restrictions on the communist regime for its alleged counterfeiting and money laundering.
North Korea has cited the financial issue in boycotting nuclear talks with China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US The talks last convened in November.
The official also dismissed moves at the UN Security Council to sanction the communist nation over its reported nuclear test.
"We have lost enough. Sanctions can never be a solution," the official said.
"We still have a willingness to give up nuclear weapons and return to six-party talks as well. It's possible whenever the US takes corresponding measures."
Pyongyang declared yesterday that it had successfully tested a nuclear bomb.
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Donald Sensing puts out a scary thought - that it could be a suitcase nuke
http://instapundit.com/archives/033097.php
Captain Ed thinks that North Korea can't tolerate our interference with their counterfeiting and will launch a nuke -
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008252.php
Thanks, I should have scrolled to your post first.
Sorry
I got a feeling we just witnessed a failure....just a hunch I have.
You read my mind. Just this morning, I was thinking since Clintons offered North Korea and Iran the same deal ($1bn for nuclear reactors) and since they did not observe whether compliance was occurring or not, is it possible that they thought that North Korea and Iran should have nukes?
I started to think back on all of the cash from China to the DNC during the Clinton years, the missing defense secrets, the apparent framing of Wen Ho Lee.
Tinfoil hat* - yikes! It sounds too much as if there had been some sort of secret sale to China. After all, peacenicks didn't want nukes, but to "prevent" wars, every country should have them. Then (the theory would be) that no country would use them. If this is correct, and there's no way of knowing if it is, then they made a huge miscalculation about how wars would be conducted.
* Mine, not anyone else's. I just have to snap out of it.
Did China ever get their train back?
Reports I came across here are of the opinions that theoretically it could still be a successful detonation of low-yield nuke, but many feel that it is a fizzle.
Unless they find dramatic evidence to the contrary, the consensus would be that it is a fizzle.
Not that I know of.:)
No doubt due to the Earth being a sphere and not being flat. Radio Telescopes in the US are generally pointing away from North Korea. If this was a real nuke, we should have had confirmation by now from all the sensors we have pointed right at North Korea (not radio astronomer equipment, but DOD equipment specifically designed for picking up the trace radiation). If this was the real deal we would have a blockade starting now followed a few days later with a successful Japanese test. If it was a real test Kim would not have to demand bribes. They would be freely given to keep him from setting off another.
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But they have learned much through both of these failures - they will get better at it as the months/years go by.
With South Korea halting extorted aid, that leaves only China, and I can't imagine China sending another train, only to be confiscated.
A twofer. Another October surprise and a Misdirection Play to Force the US to Turn Away from Iran. Kinda impressive actually. Putin did say 'Do you think you are smarter then us ?'. Also illustrates that the Russians and Chinese have complete control of the Democrat Party. It should be dissolved due to Treason.
Sometimes the Cold War would set off a geiger counter.
"a micro size nuke" As long as it wasn't a fizzle, the smaller the blast, the more sophisticated the engineering. Conventional wisdom was they could only build a heavy, inefficient bomb and therefore could not deliver it on the tip of their missiles. The smaller and more sophisticated the device, the more the delivery options open up. We rightly will not hear most of this discussed but I wouldn't be at all surprised that the NK has a lot of pointy-headed people saying ruh-roh.
I remember hearing about those. Interesting weapons, but still wouldn't want to be near a small yield nuke when it goes off.
Back in the nid-60s, I joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard as a mortarman. As the senior, training guy in the platoon, I was the Platoon Sergeant as a Spec-4 and had to take the MOS test. I did all of the studying for it, and to my surprise, that included the Davy Crockett! Interesting weapon, with the launcher mounted to the rear corner of a jeep.
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