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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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11 Feb 2005 01:14:52 PM |
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George W. Bush lights the North Korean nuclear fuse. |
This week's Foreign Ministry statement indicated that Pyongyang's
patience had run its course and that it had determined that the
second-term Bush policy was "not only to further its policy to isolate
and stifle the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] ... but to
escalate it" while pursuing "regime change".
As a result, Pyongyang announced that it would "suspend our
participation in the talks for an indefinite period", until the
atmosphere had changed sufficiently to expect positive results.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GB12Dg05.html
Feb 12, 2005
Pyongyang ups the ante - again
By Bruce Klingner
Although North Korea's admission that it possesses nuclear weapons is
consistent with previous statements made during the past 18 months,
the perception that Thursday's statement marks Pyongyang's first
"official" admission will have dynamic and conflicting impacts on the
six-way talks aimed at ending the country's nuclear program.
The possible resultant frenzy might force North Korea's neighbors and
the United States to respond more directly to the nuclear issue, much
as the 1998 nuclear tests by India and Pakistan induced government
action despite long-standing international knowledge that the two
nations possessed nuclear weapons.
North Korea's statement was surprising in its timing, though not in
its content.
Pyongyang had adopted a passive "wait and see" strategy toward
Washington, first awaiting the results of the presidential election,
then waiting for indications that a second-term administration of
President George W Bush would abandon its "hostile" policy toward the
regime.
North Korea stipulated that its participation in follow-on six-way
talks was predicated on a more flexible US approach.
Rumors of the makeup of the new US national-security team were parsed
for indications of US policy direction.
Although Pyongyang remained largely mute, the appointment of
Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state was seen by some as maintaining
a moderate voice at State Department - a surprising interpretation
given her involvement in creating the National Security Strategy and
its controversial preemptive-attack theory.
Rice's confirmation hearings and her depiction of North Korea as an
"outpost of tyranny" raised the hackles of Pyongyang, which reacts
vociferously to any slander of its regime or ruler.
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Could this be Georgie Bush's way of justifying more heavy spending on
his failed $tar War$ lemon?
Harry
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| Title: Re: George W. Bush lights the North Korean nuclear fuse. |
11 Feb 2005 01:24:19 PM |
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Bush and Kindasleazy just said they would not hold bilateral talks with
North Korea.
There's not a hell of a lot Bush can do about North Korea, he's been
shown to be a complete failure in dealing with them, so look for him to
attack Iran soon as a distraction.
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