Re: North Korea says it has Nuclear Weapons
Time to declare NK a key ally or none-NATO ally...c'mon now there is no need for all this tamasha beautiful little Kim meets all the requirements, primary one being his plutonium rod and amreekan hole a tight fit. :D
Re: North Korea says it has Nuclear Weapons
We ought to just tell Little Kim to eat his nukes.
Have em for breakfast with a side of toast.
Re: North Korea says it has Nuclear Weapons
Exsqueese me? What part about Clintons’ “Agreed Framework” did you like? The part where we gave food, fuel oil, and parts of a light water reactor to NK, or the part where they did everything that they agreed NOT to do. Sorta hard for any President to squeese that genie back in the bottle. Clinton screwed up big time, as he did not verify that NK had stopped what they agreed to stop. A fait accompli by 2000.
Lil’ Kim is destined for the Libya pile, the pile of petty tyrants that will either cave or implode. If we were alone on this one I could see people getting on Ws butt about it. but 6way talks with the most important regional players at the table is hardly unilateral. Japan is squeezing Lil Kims’ nuts harder than we are.
"While the administration talked about continuing diplomacy, there was clearly a move afoot to find new ways to put economic pressure on the North. The Japanese strategy of threatening to cut off all shipping with North Korea is part of that, as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated to reporters in Sapporo, about 600 miles across the Sea of Japan from North Korea and a center of trade with the country. “I understand calls for imposing sanctions are growing,” he said. “But we have to urge them to come to the talks in the first place.” But he is keeping in place a law scheduled to go into effect in three weeks that requires all ships over 100 tons calling at Japanese ports to have property and indemnity insurance. The bill was passed last year after one Japanese city had to pay $6.4 million to salvage a North Korean shipwreck and to clean up its oil spill.
While a seemingly bland piece of legislation, it was drafted with North Korea as the target. In 2003, only 2.5 percent of North Korean ships visiting Japan had insurance. In recent weeks, only one North Korean ship, a passenger-cargo ferry, is known to have purchased insurance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/international/asia/11cnd-korea.html?