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| US envoy says N. Korean uranium enrichment program "not a crisis" |
| 2010-11-23 |
| (KUNA) — The US urged calm and coordination Monday as the allies scrambled to deal with the revelation of what may be the most menacing nuclear facility made in North Korea, Seoul's Yonhap News Agency reported. "It's not a crisis," Stephen Bosworth, top US envoy on North Korea, told South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, who voiced his agreement over a purported uranium enrichment facility at the main nuclear complex in North Korea. "We've known about this for some time," Bosworth said in Seoul, defending the US policy intended to pressure the North into taking denuclearization steps before reopening stalled six-party talks. "I would not accept that our policy toward North Korea is a failure," Bosworth was quoted as telling news hound'>news hounds following his meeting with the minister. "This is a very difficult problem that we have been struggling to deal with for almost 20 years. We're not throwing our policy away," he said, pledging to "refine" approaches to North Korea because "we can't just ignore" the purported uranium program unveiled through a US scientist. Nah. 20 years. They got bombs. Who could call that a "failure"? "We have to incorporate this now into our strategy as we move forward," said the envoy, who arrived in Seoul Sunday night as part of a quickly arranged three-nation Asian swing. Bosworth, who was to later travel to Tokyo and Beijing, expressed hope for the eventual resumption of the six-party talks on denuclearizing the North through assistance. The talks involving two Koreas, the US Russia, Japan, and China have not been held since late 2008, and Seoul and Washington maintain Pyongyang must take tangible denuclearization steps before they can consider resuming the talks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 It's not a crisis... look away, look away... nothing to see here because.... we are broke, stretched across Iraq and Af-Pak and we CAN'T afford another war front and so we are trying to pretend it is not a crisis so it doesn't look like what it is a testing of power relations to see how the chips are gonna fall now. and now the whole world sees how they are gonna fall china is happy: it means US is too weak to fight back so is urging calm. china's plans to do whatever the hell it wants will proceed apace. now we can forget a floating yuan and don't bother about pressure for human rights abuses because the Hermit Kingdom just got a free pass to pump artillery on the south that is what it is looking like as the hours pass....and comments like this one come out.... though maybe this came out before the shelling |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-11-23 21:54 |
| #3 OOOOOOPSIES, forgot WMF > NO CHOICE FOR CHINA BUT WAR:RUSSIA'S DESIRE TO LIMIT OR KEEP CHINA OUT FROM ARCTIC ROUTES + SEOUL'S DESIRE TO BASE US TACNUKES IN SOUTH KOREA TO COUNTER NORTH KOREA'S NUCPROGS NULLS CHINA'S ACCESS INTO NORPAC, WESTPAC VIA "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN". INDIA + RUSSIA + US IN SEA OF VIETNAM + SOUTH CHINA SEAS AGZ CHINA. * TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > US: NO DECISION [yet] ON SOUTH KOREA TACNUKES. SRI LANKA = former CEYLON is [politely]turning into another ANTI-CHINA "VIETNAM II" for the US-RUSSIA-INDIA-JAPAN, while in PAKISTAN the PAK NAVY CHIEF would like to see the GWADAR PORT DEAL wid CHINA CANCELLED??? IMO, BOTH RUSSIA + US ARE TRYING HARD NOT TO SAY THEY SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH WANT JAPAN [ROK?]TO GO NUCWEAPS NUKULAAR??? And the MADAGASCAR COUP sezzies .... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-23 01:39 |
| #2 DPRK PERTS > BIGGEST FEAR is that NORTH KOREA will dev RELIABLE PLUTONIUM + ADVANCED HEU NUCMATS FOR IRAN. IOW, NUKE-WANNABE IRAN = "JUMPS" from SIMPLE DIRTY + EARLY URANIUM NUCBOMBS, TO HYDROGEN, PLUTNIUM = "GOING THERMONUCLEAR" WIDIN A SHORT TIME FRAME. IMO also read, MILTERRS GO THERMO-NUKIES IN A SHORT TIME??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-23 01:21 |
| #1 Uh, uh, DPRK ANTI-US "DEATH BY A THOUSAND KIMCHEE/CABBAGES" ala "2012"??? Gut nuthin. * WORLD NEWS > NEW CENTRIFUGES IN NORTH KOREA FORCE RECALCULATION OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRESS [serious implications for both ME + East Asia]. US forced to into "RETHINK" of effec of IRAN, DPRK ANTI-NUKE POLICIES. Lest we fergit, TOPIX/WORLDNEWS > VARIOUS > [AQAP aka AQIY] SOMALI-BASED AL QAEDA/QAEDA AFFILIATE THREATENS SMALL-SCALE ATTACKS AGZ US [Intensive Terr Campaign to cause serious damage to US Economy]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-23 01:15 |