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U.S.: N.Korea Rocket Launch Would Make Food Aid 'Hard to Imagine'
2012-03-20
Not impossible though, as Jimmuah and his friends would lean on Champ to get move the food aid through. Either Champ can show that he can be tough and lock the food aid down until the rocket launch is canceled for good, or he can be his usual indecisive, squishy self and give the Republicans a gift for the fall campaign.
The United States says North Korea's planned rocket launch imperils the delivery of food aid as part of last month's agreement on nuclear inspections. North Korea announced Friday that it will launch a satellite-carrying a long-range rocket in April.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says the North Korean launch would violate UN resolutions prohibiting the use of ballistic missile technology and counters last month's agreement to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to again inspect North Korean nuclear sites.

"This calls into question whether, when the DPRK entered into that agreement with us, they did so in good faith. Because at the time, we did warn them that we consider that a satellite launch of this kind would be an abrogation of that agreement," Nuland said.

Nuland says it is a highly provocative move that makes the delivery of 240,000 tons of food aid hard to imagine. While she says the United States does not link humanitarian assistance with political issues, Washington will not deliver food aid to Pyongyang unless it is convinced that food will go to those in need.

"It's very hard to imagine that if we have a satellite launch -- which would call into question their good faith and whether they keep any of the commitments that they make, that we would be able to have confidence in the monitoring arrangements that we are trying to make with them, or that the environment would be such, would be sufficiently tension-free that we could actually implement those agreements," Nuland said.

Nuland says the Obama administration's special representative for North Korea, Glyn Davies, has spoken with his counterparts in China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea and they are all working to encourage North Korea to sanity change course.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  hard to imagine? sort of like the sactions Bambi placed on all that traded w/ Iran for oil; only today to have Hillary exempt 16 countries? how's that bluffing game working for ya, you spineless piece of Kenyan shiite?
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2012-03-20 22:34  

#5  My tax lady just told me I'll have paid nearly $52k in Fed and State Income taxes in 2011. Reactive? You decide Skid.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-20 11:58  

#4  Hope that was reactive B. and not a reasoned thought. I'm thinking of the 20-30% un/under-employed and trailing baby boomers learning new ways to cook potatoes and oatmeal.
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-03-20 11:23  

#3  If they have enuf dough for drugs and booze a rocket launch why are we even considering food stamps aid? Oh wait!
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-20 09:44  

#2  Wonder how many hungry Americans that would feed?
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-03-20 09:38  

#1  More difficult to imagine than already is in North Korea???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-03-20 00:04  

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