From East Asia Intel, subscription.U.S. officials upset with the nuclear talks with North Korea last week said that chief envoy Christopher Hill continues to make concessions to the North Koreans without any firm commitment from Pyongyang to reveal its nuclear programs.
Our State Department hard at work at undermining any strength we have by giving away the farm for promises from pathological liars.
At issue is the continuing refusal by Pyongyang to explain and give up its covert uranium enrichment program, which triggered the crisis in 2003. North Korea at first admitted to having a uranium nuclear arms program but since then has consistently denied it.
Lucy pulled the football again, Charlie Brown. You never learn.
Hill told reporters last week that getting to the bottom of the uranium program was still an objective of the United States. But his comments emphasized “dismantling” the known plutonium arms program and appeared to play down prospects that North Korea would admit, again, to the uranium program.
The Norks got their $25 million in nefarious money back on some promises to a sucker.
“What we hope to have … by the end of the year is the disablement of the graphite moderator, that is the plutonium production; a full declaration, including a full declaration of the weapons-grade plutonium that has already been produced — this is important because we need to know what they have out there somewhere; and then we would have a complete resolution of the uranium enrichment issue,” Hill said.
That is your hope, but you have no leverage now.
“Now, as in all negotiations, to get something you have to give something, and what we're giving is further progress on our bilateral relationship," he said.
We given lots and have received nothing---nothing for it. Once--shame on you. Twice---shame on me.
Hill said he has agreed to work “very closely with them to get them off the terrorism list” — something that likely will be opposed by Japan’s government until North Korea fully resolves the issue of abducted Japanese from the 1970s.
Hill is a chump. They are on the list because they aid and abet terrorists. They need to stay on the list.
Asked about the uranium program, Hill indicated that the main priority is to dismantle the known plutonium program, and “if it turns out they have a uranium enrichment facility, that would have to be disabled.”
“I think there could well be other facilities, but that will be determined as we move forward through the declaration process,” he said.
His statement revealed that North Korean officials continued to deny having a uranium program in the latest round of talks, which ended recently in Beijing.
The final statement included a requirement that North Korea clarify its uranium program. But Hill said that does not mean North Korea admitted to having the program. “But it is an acknowledgement that they have to resolve it,” he said.
I read that last paragraph three times. It is just diplo-bulls*it. I cannot stand it any more. And may I assume that Condi is calling the shots on this mad hatter's tea party of Hill's?