U.S. "deeply troubled" by N. Korea missile firing

Reuters ^ | 06/27/07

[TigerLikesRooster]

U.S. "deeply troubled" by N. Korea missile firing

Wed Jun 27, 3:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that it was "deeply troubled" by North Korea's recent missile test-firings, saying it violated a U.N. Security Council resolution, and urged Pyongyang to refrain from further launches.

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South Korea's Yonhap news agency earlier reported that North Korea may have fired a short-range missile off its east coast on Wednesday. A Seoul Defense Ministry official could not confirm the report. North Korea has fired at least two short-range missiles over the past month.

"The United States is deeply troubled that North Korea has decided to launch these missiles during a delicate time in the six-party talks," Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said.

Six-party talks by the two Koreas, Japan, Russia, the United States and China aimed at stopping North Korea's nuclear program reached a disarmament-for-aid deal in February.

But the accord was stalled for weeks by a dispute over about $25 million of North Korean funds frozen at the behest of the United States in a Macau bank. Pyongyang agreed to implement the deal this week after the money was released.

Johndroe said the missile launches were a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution which prohibits North Korea from engaging in ballistic missile activities.

"We expect North Korea to refrain from conducting further provocative ballistic missile launches, activity that is destabilizing to the security of northeast Asia and turn its focus to implementing its commitments under the February 13th agreement, including the immediate shut down of Yongbyon," Johndroe said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday that North Korea will allow a team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials to visit the Yongbyon reactor it has agreed to shut down under the agreement.

[TigerLikesRooster]

S. Korean media quoting AP and CNN, reports that three N. Korea missiles were fired according to U.S. Department of Defense.

Any way, I doubt that White House is nothing else to do except feeling "deeply troubled." Maybe they say their patience has limits, but we know the limit is set pretty high.:-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[ZULU]

“Maybe they say their patience has limits, but we know the limit is set pretty high.:-)”

MY patience is wearing thin with with the Administration.

Like the Clinton Gang, the Bush bunch seems to feel they can negotiate with a lunatic.

The only solution to North Korea is a regime change and the Red Chinese, our “trading” partners,are the only solution to that problem.

We should tell the Red Chinese that either they take out the current leadership in North Korea, or reign them in, or we will be providing nuclear weaponry to our allies in the region.

[Kakaze]

This article reads as if Madeline Albreichts bunch wrote it...

[familyop]

"This article reads as if Madeline Albreichts bunch wrote it..."

See the mention of Albright in the quote below.

Commencement Address at Boston College (Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 2006. US Department of State)

Excerpts:

As a student of a Catholic high school, the Sisters of Loretta taught me, I am pleased to be at an institution of higher education with such strong and celebrated Catholic and Jesuit traditions . . . You see, I got my Master's Degree at Notre Dame. (Boos.) I acquired a passion for the fighting Irish . . . and my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.) . . . I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright. With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian.

[familyop]

So North Korea has the missiles, and Iran has the uranium for making nuclear warheads. It doesn’t look good for the future.

[Calvin Locke]

There was a time when Rice first started acting stupid with NK, that I attributed it to her following orders from Bush who was listening to the idiots at Foggy Bottom.

Then she went over what I thought was a line with the so called "Palestinians", and knew she wasn't up for the job.

When I heard about her praising Albright at a venue other than a memorial service, that was it.

I relegated her to my next to the last choice on my list for any thing important, assuming I as a voter am allowed a choice after this POTUS and Congress.

[familyop]

"I relegated her to my next to the last choice on my list for any thing important, assuming I as a voter am allowed a choice after this POTUS and Congress."

You might want to have a good look at this, then.

http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/

International Security Advisory Board (ISAB)

The Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (formerly called the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board (ACNAB)) provides the Department with independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy. The ISAB is sponsored and overseen by the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. The Board provides its recommendations directly to the Secretary of State. The Board currently has 20 members and is chartered to have up to 25. Board members are national security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic, and political backgrounds. The Board meets in a plenary session on a quarterly basis.

Updated: April 19, 2007

http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/c17650.htm

Board Members

— Senator Fred Thompson (Chairman)
— Dr. Michael R. Anastasio
— Dr. Kathleen Bailey
— Dr. Ashton B. Carter
— Ms. Alison B. Fortier
— Dr. William Graham
— Amb. Robert Joseph
— Mr. Mitchel B. Kugler
— Dr. Ronald F. Lehman, II
— Vice Admiral Robert R. Monroe, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
— Dr. Gordon C. Oehler
— Dr. Keith B. Payne
— Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
— Senator Charles S. Robb
— Dr. C. Paul Robinson
— Dr. Amy Sands
— Dr. James R. Schlesinger
— Dr. William Schneider, Jr
— Dr. William Van Cleave
— Mr. R. James Woolsey

[iopscusa]

I doubt that Con. Rice just wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee (???) who specialized in Soviet studies....smells like a classic KGB set-up which included another SOS, Mad. Albright. Now we are seeing the fruits of this set-up in the way Israel and the MiEast has been mishandled by Rice and Bush...
Con. Rice was hooked with Russia (USSR) and all things Russian. Can you find any info about her first excursion to Moscow? She was probably in her early to mid 20’s.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Cut ‘em another check.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Deeply troubled, but won’t do anything about it.

[expatguy]

Can anyone define “deeply troubled”? Sounds like some kind of diplospeak for ummm.... an inability to effectively respond.

[AIM-54]

Deeply troubled, but won’t do anything about it

Nothing will be done until there's a mushroom cloud. Until then, it's really not worth one's time to pay attention to an of the pathetically empty diplo-speak.

[RetSignman]

It’s stage two of being troubled.

!. Troubled
2. Deeply troubled
3. Super Dooper deeply troubled
4. Repeat 1, 2, 3

[SevenofNine]

Gee wonder why maybe that money didn’t help North Koreans chill out for while

BOY who running administaion Tiger I don’t know

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump and ping...

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.........to post #5

[milford421]

What in the h...is going on lately? Madeline Albright, NK, Russia...Republicans, Bush siding w/ Kennedy...

Makes me wonder what’s really up with the folks talking about the skull and bones society...

[familyop]

"What in the h...is going on lately? Madeline Albright, NK, Russia...Republicans, Bush siding w/ Kennedy..."

It's really been going on all along.

Each president obeys the demands of those in our parties who see themselves as our superiors and pay for the privilege of executing their preferred policies through our Executive. And they only care a little as to which party they use like a vending machine.

Most of them go to big churches (all anti-Israel and calling for divestment) and are sometimes "swing voters." They are often vague and are almost always dishonest in public discussions.

They want to keep social programs that keep our labor pool large by breaking families. They want to "Repeal all measures that punish employers for hiring undocumented workers. Repeal all immigration quotas." And they don't want any of their social vices or abominations to be outlawed or even criticized.

And as usual, they have another one of their own running on rhetoric with the bandwagon approach. Anyone who disagrees or questions too much is accused, flamed and threatened.

Bush and Sharon disagree over Israel's future
Wednesday June 27, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,513410,00.html

President Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership
The Rose Garden
June 24, 2002
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html
"So I challenge Israel to take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable, credible Palestinian state."
[. . .]
"The United States, the international donor community and the World Bank stand ready to work with Palestinians on a major project of economic reform and development. The United States, the EU, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund are willing to oversee reforms in Palestinian finances, encouraging transparency and independent auditing."

Quartet Joint Statement
Summary
July 16, 2002: Text of a joint statement issued by the "Quartet" (United Nations, Russian Federation, the United States and the European Union) following their meeting in New York
[Document behind the link.]
http://europa-eu-un.org/articles/sk/article_1489_sk.htm
"The new international Task Force on Reform, which is comprised of representatives of the U.S., EU, UN Secretary General, Russia, Japan, Norway, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and which works under the auspices of the Quartet, will strive to develop and implement a comprehensive action plan for reform."


Sharon presses Putin to drop UN resolution on road map
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013908/posts
4 November 2003

Rice: Israel Must Withdraw from More than Gaza and Samaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333354/posts
February 1, 2005

2004 Republican Party Platform (see "Road Map")

US pressure prompts delay of [Israel’s] offensive (”We do not want escalations” - White House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680983/posts

Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast-State Department seeks to delay supply
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681771/posts


President Abbas asks Congress help to release PNA funds withheld by Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844647/posts

Bush releases money to Abbas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844646/posts

Rice: Better to have Hamas in power than in streets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733397/posts

Rice: Palestinians deserve to live free of ‘occupation’[at an event of pro-Palestinian group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717847/posts

US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries “Occupation”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts



They don't care about what most of us want.

Most Americans Support Right of Jews to Live and Build in Judea-Samaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927783/posts
June 10, 2003
"By a margin of nearly five to one, Americans oppose the Bush administration's demand to halt all further Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza . . . The poll, carried out by John McLaughlin & Associates, surveyed a scientific sample of 1,000 American adults on May 21, 2003.

[milford421]

Excellent articles and information. Thanks for the links.