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2003-08-02 Korea

N.Korea Said Willing to Halt Nuke Program

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-02 01:27|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OK, so its a case of hair spray, a dozen leisure suits and matching elevator shoes, and we have a truce?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-2 1:53:38 AM|| 2003-8-2 1:53:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Freeze? What a load of UN-think. The whole NorK house of cards has to come down, not just swallow a promise from a congenital meglomaniac that maybe he won't add to it. Kofi, go fuck yerself before you negotiate the world into oblivion. Don't you have a luncheon or something to attend?

And I really love this part of the NorK Foreign Policy Playbookâ¢: We will stop doing bad things if you promise not to kick our ass. Sure thing, Dear Leader. And we'll make you another promise: We will keep that promise precisely as long as you keep yours.

Posted by PD 2003-8-2 2:07:58 AM|| 2003-8-2 2:07:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, so its a case of hair spray, a dozen leisure suits and matching elevator shoes, and we have a truce?

I wish I read this in the morning than late at night. Coffee is much easier to clean out of a keyboard than merlot.

Posted by Jay Leno 2003-8-2 2:54:14 AM|| 2003-8-2 2:54:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 North Korea might consider freezing its nuclear program

Did someone promise Kimmi a tour of Graceland?

Posted by Rafael 2003-8-2 7:43:16 AM|| 2003-8-2 7:43:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Now that the Russians are planning a preemptive strike, NK is finally feeling the heat. Thanks, Vlad 'the Impaler' Putin.

The NK Kommies know the Russians, unlike the Japanese and the US, don't give a fuck about civilian casualties, and they will steam roller over everything Kim has built.

Maybe someone slipped the NK Moscow ambassador a note asking, "How do you like your gas? Regular or something a little stronger?"

Posted by badanov 2003-8-2 8:15:42 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-8-2 8:15:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 badanov - "The NK Kommies know the Russians, unlike the Japanese and the US, don't give a fuck about civilian casualties..."
Good point - I have no doubt that Dear Leader saw the Moscow theater assault just as we did. Just a tad heavy-handed, some might say. Vlad, however, gave out medals and such, didn't he? Not exactly a PC response.

Ol' Vladeemeerkat took his sweet time in stepping into the NorK situation... Letting it get "hot" in hopes of gaining a little additional leverage, perhaps?

But badanov's right. We can sit tight giving away nothing until either they cave in, China reigns them in, Russia scares them into getting real - or we or the Russians finally get fed up with the game and decide the time is ripe to level NorK.

Interesting poker game - and the stakes are as high as they get.

Posted by PD 2003-8-2 10:23:39 AM|| 2003-8-2 10:23:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 ...in other news, it's a bright sunny 10,000 degrees Farhenheit in Hell with no chance of let up in the forseeable future.

Posted by Paul 2003-8-2 3:21:06 PM|| 2003-8-2 3:21:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I was actually kind of hoping for snow in Hell. Pretty to think that NKor will have a neat solution tied up with 5 little bows, is it not? Kimmie's missing a slew of, ah hell, a whole lot of things (most of them involving sanity and rationale), so I think pretty solutions, recumbent with bows, are about as likely as children successfully playing tiddlywinks with man-hole covers. *sigh*

Posted by Tadderly 2003-8-2 4:02:56 PM|| 2003-8-2 4:02:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 SDB thinks the Chicoms blinked. Interesting read.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-2 10:14:29 PM|| 2003-8-2 10:14:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 SDB thinks the Chicoms blinked. Interesting read.

This is the nth time the North Koreans have said this. It's not over till it's over - the sneaky so-and-so's will make like Saddam up until we make clear we're going to send our guys in. But that threat's not even on the table, so we have no leverage. As long as the South Koreans continue their obstructionism, North Korea will find it convenient to dangle carrots they have no intention of handing over.

And the self-importance of the Chinese prevents them from seeing the danger to their interests of a war in North Korea. Mark my words - contrary to what SDB is saying, the Chinese are oblivious to the risk - so convinced are they about their importance in the world economy. (Check out the National Defense University's English translations of Chinese geostrategic views for a window into the smug and arrogant, yet paranoid, minds of Chinese strategists).

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-3 12:06:58 AM|| 2003-8-3 12:06:58 AM|| Front Page Top

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