North Korea Admits WMD's And Quits Treaty Talks

[Warham]

I think Mad Max whenever I think of a post-nuke scenario.

[diamondD]

With both, there is a serious threat of them selling to terrorists. I would personally like to see Israel take care of Iran and us focus our attention to NK, because they both deserve the world's immediate attention.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by diamondD
With both, there is a serious threat of them selling to terrorists. I would personally like to see Israel take care of Iran and us focus our attention to NK, because they both deserve the world's immediate attention.

Do what, drop a few bombs? That won't do it, and Israel will get a few SCUD's in return.

[diamondD]

Ok then, what do you suggest? Coddle them for years like you would like to have done with Iraq?

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by diamondD
Ok then, what do you suggest? Coddle them for years like you would like to have done with Iraq?

No, I'd rather coddle North Korea, they're much cuter and the chics are all really thin from state sponsored anorexia!

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
No, I'd rather coddle North Korea, they're much cuter and the chics are all really thin from state sponsored anorexia!

:D

[capnfrantic]

Would they be willing to let inspectors in or would they hide their program? Oh shit, we know where this goes.....

[blueturk]

Originally posted by diamondD
With both, there is a serious threat of them selling to terrorists. I would personally like to see Israel take care of Iran and us focus our attention to NK, because they both deserve the world's immediate attention.

Damn, I wonder which one Dubya will focus on?

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I just cannot fathom a nuclear strike ANYWHERE that does not entail us getting in the shit, one way or another.

But maybe I'm just having a "War Games" flash back:D

I'm no expert, but I thought I read somewhere, sometime a Pentagon official who claimed that no matter how they "game it", it always eventually came to us.

this is my view as well

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by ODShowtime
this is my view as well

And why the fuck are we still spending billions on SDI / Star Wars 20 years after it was proven it wont work....ever.

Why arent we spending the money SECURING the old Soviet nukes so they dont fall into the hands of terrorists????

Why did we spend 300billion starting a war over WMD, which we KNEW didnt exist, when we KNEW where they were the whole time?

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
And why the fuck are we still spending billions on SDI / Star Wars 20 years after it was proven it wont work....ever.

Why arent we spending the money SECURING the old Soviet nukes so they dont fall into the hands of terrorists????

Tell me this doesn't even make sense to you, does it? You're just bullshitting, right?

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Why arent we spending the money SECURING the old Soviet nukes so they dont fall into the hands of terrorists????

I'm still shocked that we never had more politicians grandstanding on how much money and effort we spent to buy up all the Soviet era nuclear weapons out there. That should have been a huge priority in the 90s. I am very afraid that that will be the harbinger of our doom. Seriously, I think that will be the reason why my way of life ends. Those same missiles the Soviets had pointed at us are still pointed at us.




Yes I am aware who the president was at that time Warham.

[kentuckyklira]

I love wearing my little North Korean flag button more and more!

Conservative American tourists love me for it!

[blueturk]

Recent developments...


U.S. refuses one-on-one North Korea talks
February 11,2005
By DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors.

"It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."

North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said.

In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States.

"We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday. "If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."

U.S. officials believe North Korea, which is seeking bilateral talks with the United States, may have from four to two dozen nuclear devices, depending on the assumptions used about the bombs' designs.

The United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia have struggled to arrange a fourth round of talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons programs. The last round was held in June. A South Korean delegation is due in Washington on Monday for previously scheduled strategic talks and a Japanese group will arrive for consultations here later in the week.

McClellan noted that North Korea violated the 1994 Agreed Framework, a bilateral pact negotiated with the United States that froze Pyongyang's nuclear facilities in return for energy aid. That deal collapsed in late 2002 when U.S. officials accused the North of violating the accord by pursuing a secret nuclear program. The North denied the charge, withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and restarted its frozen nuclear facilities.

"North Korea violated that Agreed Framework and continued to pursue nuclear weapons," McClellan said. "We believe the six-party talks are the way to resolve this in a peaceful and diplomatic way."

"I think all countries in the region are saying to North Korea, that they need to come back to the talks so that we can talk about the proposal that we put on the table at the last round of talks," the spokesman said. "That proposal addresses the concerns of all parties and it provides the way forward for resolving this matter."

Consultations are already under way with China, a senior U.S. official said.

The United States will keep pushing for six-party talks and is urging its negotiating partners not to get rattled, said this official, speaking on condition of anonymity.