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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| They'll meet in Nov. to START working on the details. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:39 am Post subject: |
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So it wasn't a breakthrough so much as a dog & pony show.
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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You know, those Norks are really starting to grow on me with their antics. They're trying to punk the US state officials. It's like candid cam.
Mr. Kim: "Ok. We will stop the nuclear program........................."
US state officials: "Wheew! Gee, that was a close one. Thanks Mr. Kim!"
Mr. Kim: "SIKE!"
Me: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH THOSE DARN NORKIES...  "
I feel bad that I'm reacting this way but this has been going on for so long, the situation is almost surreal. It's like a Samuel Beckett play. Absurd. Or a Monty Python episode.
And yeah, I bet they don't even have any nukes either. Mr. Kim's chuckling his arse off in his palace, he's all like "kkrh kkrh kkrh, Oh man, Did you see the expression on Christopher Hill's face on Monday? That was friggin' hilarious dude!" "Oh man, that was a good one!" "Remember that time we punked Albreight? Holy s^it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
In international diplomatic terms, NK is like Spicoli from Ridgemont High. You just can't get mad at him....
... that is unless he goes all columbine and ballistic, then he needs a total arse whooping. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Uh-oh!
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| SEOUL, South Korea Sep 21, 2005 — North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of intending to disarm the communist country and then "crush it to death with nuclear weapons" two days after a landmark disarmament agreement that was expected to ease tensions. |
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"In a word, it intends to disarm and crush us to death with nuclear weapons," the commentary said.
Washington has repeatedly denied North Korean allegations that it is planning an attack. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| Bo Peabody wrote: |
| this has been going on for so long, the situation is almost surreal. It's like a Samuel Beckett play. Absurd. Or a Monty Python episode. |
It's like when Lucy is holding the football for Charlie Brown. |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| Bo Peabody wrote: |
| this has been going on for so long, the situation is almost surreal. It's like a Samuel Beckett play. Absurd. Or a Monty Python episode. |
It's like when Lucy is holding the football for Charlie Brown. |
Right. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:44 am Post subject: |
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With S. Korea dancing with the North on the Nuke reactor, it is interesting to remember this article: Hope the South pays for the whole thing and they should.
http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=kedo++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/200508/kt2005082417540068040.htm&media=kt
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Unification Minister Opposes KEDO Project
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea's point man on North
Korea said on Wednesday he opposed resuming a project to build nuclear power plants in the communist country, but claimed the North will be entitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy as soon as it abandons its nuclear weapons programs.
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Seoul will not pursue the resumption of the project by the Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) to build two light-water reactors in the North for energy purposes because its latest offer to provide two million kilowatts of electricity will be financed by funds allocated to the KEDO project.
``The plan to send electricity to North Korea is based on the premise that the North abandons its nuclear weapons programs and agrees to end the project to build light-water reactors,���� the minister said in a report to the National Assembly��s Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee.
Those remarks are in line with the U.S. position on the resumption of the KEDO project.
The North did not demand the completion of the nuclear reactors in the latest round of six-nation talks over its nuclear weapons programs, but analysts believe the communist state may insist on the resumption of their construction in future talks.
The top U.S. negotiator at the talks, Christopher Hill, has already expressed his country's opposition, saying light-water reactors are not cost-effective.
``These are rather expensive things... We are talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,���� he said while taking part in the fourth round of the six-party talks in Beijing that went into a three-week recess at the beginning of this month. The negotiations, also attended by the two Koreas, Japan, China and Russia, are to resume next week.
The U.S. stance apparently comes from its wish to see a complete dismantlement of all nuclear programs as well as all nuclear reactors in the North.
However, Chung, who concurrently serves as the head of South Korea's National Security Council, renewed his claim that the North should be given the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
``Once the North returns to the NPT and agrees to be subject to IAEA inspections, it is only natural that (the country) should enjoy the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy as a member state of the NPT,���� he said at the parliamentary meeting.
The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allows its member countries to use nuclear energy as long as it is for peaceful purposes and the country agrees to inspections by the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
The United States, however, claims the communist North cannot be trusted with any type of nuclear activity.
The latest North Korean nuclear dispute erupted in late 2002 when the U.S. accused the North of running a clandestine nuclear arms program in violation of its 1994 agreement.
The North's Foreign Ministry announced the country's possession of nuclear weapons for the first time in February.
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