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China-Japan-Koreas
N Korea calls on US to lift financial sanctions
2007-03-11
SEOUL - North Korea has said it will take ‘corresponding action’ if the United States does not lift its financial sanctions on the country following the recent agreement on ending the international dispute over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. North Korea ‘cannot but take corresponding actions if the US does not fully lift the sanctions,’ news agency Yonhap quoted North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan as saying in Beijing on Saturday.

Kim reiterated PyongyangÂ’s insistence that Washington lift all sanctions againt the Banco Delta Asia bank in Macau, where numerous North Korean accounts have been frozen since September 2005 after the US alleged they were being used for the proceeds of North Korean counterfeiting and money laundering.
I'm thinking that's the shoe that pinched the most.
It was not however clear if North Korea was raising the possibility that it could renege on the agreement reached last month to close its contentious Yongbyon nuclear power plant within 60 days.
No need to be coy about it, KT reporter. These are NorKs we're talking about.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  I wouldn't 'et 'em Barb lol or feed to my pet rat! ;-)

/well.. i don't really own a rat.
Posted by: RD   2007-03-11 23:27  

#7  I dunno, #6 RD - I'd think Pelosi would be awfully stringy.

Of course, even stringy would probably be better than grass soup....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-03-11 19:47  

#6  Alaska Paul would suggest that the NORKS hold Secret Talks™ with the Dems in Congress. They just MIGHT move it along as a rider in some pork bill. Nobody reads the verbage in these things anyway, so they just might slip it through. Better yet, find some staffer with Pelosi, or Murtha. Hey, my humanitarian suggestion.

AP how bout a work around..

On humanitarian grounds we could feed both Pelosi AND Murtha to the North Koreans. a sure two fer, hunger abatement for the Norks and sweet permanent relief for us.
Posted by: RD   2007-03-11 19:11  

#5  I would suggest that the NORKS hold Secret Talks™ with the Dems in Congress. They just MIGHT move it along as a rider in some pork bill. Nobody reads the verbage in these things anyway, so they just might slip it through. Better yet, find some staffer with Pelosi, or Murtha. Hey, my humanitarian suggestion.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-03-11 13:52  

#4  Pallets of greenbacks are starting to turn yellow?
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger   2007-03-11 12:41  

#3  Probably finally figured out that counterfeit US $50 bills are really only good for toilet paper now that they've been exposed, So Whine Whine, Lift Sanctions so we can print more and pass them through our Tame Bankers.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-03-11 12:37  

#2  North Korea has said it will take ‘corresponding actionÂ’ if the United States does not lift its financial sanctions on the country...

Does this mean no tree bark & grass soup dinner tonight?
Posted by: Raj   2007-03-11 09:46  

#1  Why not invite them to do business with Bank of America, where they will promise to beat whatever benefits they are getting from Banco Delta Asia Bank by 0.5%? Wouldn't that make any country happy? /sarc_off
Posted by: gorb   2007-03-11 03:05  

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