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2003-09-02 Korea

N Korea lifts threat to quit N-arms talks

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Posted by Frank G 2003-09-02 2:33:38 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But the communist stateâs official mouthpiece struck a more positive tone yesterday - underlining the unpredictability of North Koreaâs behaviour and the difficulty of interpreting its rhetoric.

I would say that North Korea's behaviour and its rhetoric are quite easy and straightforward to interpret these days. No problem at all.

They are on the ropes and the only thing keeping their Living Deadâ¢ collective governmental asses alive is China. What say thee, China? Whither goest thou from here?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-2 2:49:05 PM|| 2003-9-2 2:49:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 He urged the US embassy "to send a car to pick them up to bring them, somehow to safe asylum in the United States".

I hope he realizes there's no land route between Korea and the US.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-9-2 3:14:38 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-9-2 3:14:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Never mind," said KCNA spokesperson Emily Litella.

Posted by snellenr 2003-9-2 3:30:50 PM|| 2003-9-2 3:30:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not the Blues Bros. - everybody in China wears that same baggy black suit. Hey, it's an improvement over that old olive-drab Mao suit!...

Posted by mojo 2003-9-2 5:39:11 PM|| 2003-9-2 5:39:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think anyone knows whether there's a unified Chinese-North Korea policy ... there's the hardliners who support it no matter what, those who want to use North Korea against the US, those who're still nationalist (kinda hardline) but worry about North Korea turning on China/it screwing over China by involving the US, and those who just don't like it ...

Anyone figure out which school of thought Jiang Zemin and his puppet Hu Jintao belong to?

Posted by Lu Baihu 2003-9-2 5:58:02 PM|| 2003-9-2 5:58:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sobody give the good doctor a blanket party and make him understand that his personnal effort to destabilize a psychotic new member of the nuclear club is not appreciated. A shotgun enema may be necessary.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-2 9:58:05 PM|| 2003-9-2 9:58:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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