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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Utterly disgusting.
It is not a question of trusting China and Russian. It is now a question of Chinas and Russias integrity with regards to what is happening in North Korea. We conservatives always assumed that they had no integrity with respect to North Korea. If their assessment of Kims Little Bang ends up being vastly different from the Free Worlds assessment, they make themselves and their statements concerning North Korea, inconsequential or irrelevant. We knew that, now the rest of the World will know that.
Link: North Korea Going Underground?
To: PghBaldyJust out of curiosity, is it possible to fake an underground nuke test with conventional explosives? The ronery one knows we will not nuke him but it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to bluff a nuclear capacity than to build one.
4 posted on 08/26/2006 11:48:28 PM EDT by NonValueAdded (Tom Gallagher - the anti-Crist [FL Governor, 2006 primary])
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That's my thinking too. Without sniffing the radiation evidence, Kim must be thinking he can use a large conventional blast dubbed "nuclear" as a bargaining chip to get the US to concede to negotiations and folk like Richardson are eating it up.
Without an explosion going "critical", all they can develop is the equivalent of a dirty bomb. A strong blast? Yes. Thermo-nuclear? Not today.
The fact they're so naive thinking the international community can't tell if it's nuclear or conventional is a sure sign of NK's isolation and ignorance of the matter.
I figure at some point Korea will clain it was actually a Nude Bomb they set off and not a Nuke Bomb.
At that point we will need to assign this case to agent 86.
It's a Hush-A-Bomb they got from Boris and Natasha.
Hey Kimmy! Watch me pull a nuke out of a hat!
Again?!
Nutin up my sleave..
Ping to a non-vanity thread...
Yea right. The only thing they have tested is my patience
A clue?
Well said.
Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM), energy secretary under Clinton, claims that we should hold face-to-face one-on-one talks with genocidal terrorist totalitarian dictator Kim Jong-il (D-NK). I concur, provided that we get to choose the venue: Camp X-ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "Little dictator" Kim Jong-il fears airplane flight, so we'll transport him via US Navy vessels to that destination. If he prefers, we could hold the talks en route aboard an aircraft carrier. The totalitarian terrorist should take his entire palace corps, hundred most loyal supporters, and senior military generals to the talks.
This wound up being exactly what I thought, a big ZERO.
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