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| Democrats urge bilateral US-North Korea talks |
| 2006-10-20 |
| Some leading US Democratic senators joined a growing chorus of voices calling on the Bush administration on Wednesday to engage in bilateral talks with North Korea to persuade the communist state to abandon its nuclear weapons programs. Carl Levin, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said President George W Bush should abandon his resistance to one-on-one talks with North Korea and appoint a special envoy to deal with Pyongyang. "Providing our allies and partners want us to talk with the North Koreans, bilaterally, one-on-one, we should do so," he said, adding that he believed South Korea, China and Russia supported such talks. "Our refusal to do so just plays into the hands of the North Koreans," Levin said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Dems' timing is still impeccable. Too late, ChiComs have lost face and are starting to deal w/him. And Kimchee did not apologize, error in SorK translation. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-10-20 15:03 |
| #6 Perfesser nailed it. It be like letting the chickens negotiate w/the fox. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-10-20 14:01 |
| #5 I love listening to the a party on how to deal with the Norks that thinks that dodgeball and tag should be banned as too dangerous for children. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-10-20 10:19 |
| #4 does that scare you enough to GET OUT AND VOTE??? Yes!! I was one of the folks planning on sitting this one out. But given the situation in Iran and Korea - giving power to the Dems in Congress would be catastrophic. I may have to put a clothespin on my nose, but the GOP has my vote. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-10-20 08:58 |
| #3 because they worked so well last time, eh Jimmy? leading US Democratic Senators...does that scare you enough to GET OUT AND VOTE??? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-20 07:08 |
| #2 CHINA knows that JAPAN, SOKOR, and other Asian democracies-moderates have stronger or more resilient economies + more tech-savy. China is still in pervasive catch-up mode and cannot hope to achieve its ambitions of Chinese-centric, Communism-centric Asia-Pacific hegemony while both the Regional + Geopol "status quo" continues. WORSE TO WORSE, IT NEEDS PC PROXIES like NORTH KOREA to wilfully, deliberately, and PDeniably place themselves at NORKOR-only risk of national self-destruction in order to delay the State-specific progress of regional Asian competitors, espec JAPAN. China controls North Korea already - where the Norkies are concerned, their isue is by which Chicom-manipulated/ controlled scenario of external national destruction do they wish to be destroyed by. CHINA WILL DO NUTHIN' TO KIMMIE AS LONG AS KIMMIE DIRECTS NORKIE FURY TO ONLY THE USA-ALLIES + DOES NUTHIN TO THREATEN DE FACTO CHINESE CONTROL. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-10-20 01:25 |
| #1 Levin's foreign policy advice is as screwed up as his cue ball cover |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-10-20 00:56 |