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N. Korea tells US lawmaker it has atom bombs: report
2005-01-22
Make up yer goddamned mind!
A top North Korean official has told US legislators that the communist state possessed nuclear weapons, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday. North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan said the country was a nuclear weapons state but its nuclear arsenal was defensive in nature and Pyongyang did not intend to possess it forever, Radio Free Asia quoted US Rep. Curt Weldon as saying. Weldon, Republican of Pennsylvania, led a six-member congressional delegation to North Korea last week and met with its senior officials. North Korea aimed to denuclearise itself and it was willing to move toward that end in a transparent manner, Weldon quoted the North's Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun as saying. "The president of the country said that he foresaw the day when America and North Korea would be friends," Weldon was quoted as telling a forum in Washington last week about his meeting with the North's number-two official and president of its assembly, Kim Yong-nam.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Can't your see I'm very very busy!? Hans Blix you stupid muzah fuckah!
Posted by: Dear Leader   2005-01-22 4:35:31 PM  

#7  Oh yeah, the fabulists feeding the credulous. Good use of taxpayer money.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-22 4:35:16 PM  

#6  Every time I see a headline about North Korea a smile starts to form. Then I click the link, and yes, there's my favorite graphic of Kimmy.
Posted by: nada   2005-01-22 12:19:14 PM  

#5  Somebody drop leaflets stating the person(s) to kill Kimmy will be provided with free steaks for the rest of their lives. Or better yet, just offer them Micheal Moores grocery list for one month.
Posted by: Charles   2005-01-22 11:41:34 AM  

#4  Look at us! Look at me, MOMMY!

I have something I'm not supposed to have.

Nyah, nyah, nyah!
Posted by: anonymous2u   2005-01-22 10:56:05 AM  

#3  I have a feeling the Norks are shooting for a junta government, that leaves their current leaders, with one notable exception, in power.

Hmmmm... like it, answers a lot of questions.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-22 10:16:52 AM  

#2  Pyongyang did not intend to possess it forever

Oh, don't worry. Like it or not, they won't...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-22 10:03:39 AM  

#1  I have a feeling the Norks are shooting for a junta government, that leaves their current leaders, with one notable exception, in power. Their serious, and not neccessarily unreasonable, assumption would be that the Skors would gleefully hang most of them from lightpoles. So they would probably prefer to evolve an increasingly close relationship with China, minus that one irritant, and again, evolve a more Chinese-style open market. Right now, Chinese consumer goods are achingly close to Norkland, and their leaders are itching to try out a Big Mac and a pair of Gucci loafers, once you-know-who is wearing concrete galoshes.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-01-22 9:52:26 AM  

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