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catman
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 Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: North Korea calls for end to hostile relations with U.S. |
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North Korea has called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in a New Year message, the official news agency KCNA reported.
"The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between the DPRK (North Korea) and the USA," it said in a report of a joint newspaper editorial on the country's foreign policy stance.
It added: "It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to establish a lasting peace system on the Korean peninsula and make it nuclear-free through dialogue and negotiations."
U.S. President Barack Obama wrote a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il this month to try to persuade Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks.
North Korea a year ago stepped away from a deal with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States to end its nuclear programme in exchange for massive aid and an end to its international ostracism.
North Korea has exploded nuclear devices but has yet to show it has a working nuclear bomb. Experts doubt the North has the ability to miniaturise an atomic weapon to place on a missile, but it has been trying to develop such a warhead.
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I'm extremely skeptical about NK but hopefully this turns out to be legit. |
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Wishmaster
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I think we know by now that North Korea is not to be trusted...at all. They will never give up their nuclear ambitions...never. Too much security in having them. They lie, lie, lie. Just another way for them to get the attention that they so desperately deserve, just like their "brothers" to the south. The only thing is that they don't take out full page ads in the NYT. |
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proustme
Joined: 13 Jun 2009
Location: Nowon-gu
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Same old story. They need money, grain, and materials (to make weapons). |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone please let me know when it's official. |
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