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U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks
2005-02-11
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."
Looks like Kimmie's temper tantrum didn't work.
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."
Looks like we're not changing our hostile policy to them.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Amen, AP. I love what you said, too, Remoteman-those accusers are little hypocrites, blowing gaskets when we act unilaterally, then scurrying to avoid concession when we work multilaterally.

BTW-Jeez, who's doing Kimmi's hair, the singer for Flock of Seagulls?
Posted by: jules 2   2005-02-11 7:09:39 PM  

#5  Saying no to a temper tantrum by Kimmie is a good start. The US must be consistant in its treatment of the Norks. No more back street bailouts. If SKor wants to do it, they can do it alone, and they can defend their country alone. We do not need SKor stabbing us in the back at this time. The sooner the Nork regime implodes, the sooner the North Korean people can be rescued from their 50 year nightmare.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-02-11 3:57:35 PM  

#4  Good Morning...



China, curb your dog.
Posted by: BigEd   2005-02-11 1:29:27 PM  

#3  "showing alliance in juche with his starving supplicants devoted people, Dear Leader drinks a vintage year glass of air"
Posted by: Frank G   2005-02-11 12:45:22 PM  

#2  I love this because it forces those who claim we take a unilateralist approach to eat crow when we refuse to take a unilateralist approach.
Posted by: Remoteman   2005-02-11 12:42:18 PM  

#1  What's to talk about? I'm sure a SSBN, which already has basically anything worth targeting in N.Korea, is on station is moment. After the first blast somewhere in S.Korea, it will become an island. Of course Kimmy may be seeking suicide by cop, just taking the fawning masses with him.
Posted by: Ebbavith Gleack2775   2005-02-11 12:02:27 PM  

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