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Stop Playing Games w/ North Korea
Posted by Raven on June 22nd, 2006
Why are we allowing this issue to even be a headline? Why are we playing kid games with North Korea? IS this all propaganda?
If it isn’t, we need to wipe out the missles and get on with the more serious issues we face.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea called Wednesday for direct talks with the United States over a potential missile test, but the Bush administration rejected the overture, saying threats aren’t the way to seek dialogue.
“You don’t normally engage in conversations by threatening to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles,” U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said. “It’s not a way to produce a conversation because if you acquiesce in aberrant behavior you simply encourage the repetition of it, which we’re obviously not going to do.”
Yes I agree…BUT, we have to look at who we are dealing with here. The leader of NK is like a child demanding attention. Let’s give it to him by destroying any weapons he has. Diplomacy means nothing to those who manipulate and lie and make demands.
Meanwhile, Japan said Thursday it had deployed naval ships and patrol planes to monitor developments in North Korea as the country apparently prepares to test a long-range missile believed capable of reaching the United States.
President Bush, meeting with European leaders in Austria, said North Korea faced further isolation if it went ahead with any launch.
Nations near NK stand to lose the most. We can insist these nations “engage” in talks and all that, and isolation tactics. In the end it won’t matter. NK is a badly behaving little snot in the neighborhood.
“It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes who have announced they have nuclear warheads, fire missiles,” he said. “This is not the way you conduct business in the world.”
Earlier Wednesday, Han Song Ryol, deputy chief of North Korea’s mission to the United Nations, said Pyongyang was seeking to resolve the missile test concerns through direct talks with the United States.
“North Korea as a sovereign state has the right to develop, deploy, test fire and export a missile,” he told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. “We are aware of the U.S. concerns about our missile test-launch. So our position is that we should resolve the issue through negotiations.”
This is a threat. Plain and simple. Let’s respond to it. By taking away the actual threat. THEN maybe, JUST maybe, we can negotiate. On our terms, not NK’s.
Washington was weighing responses to a potential test that could include attempting to shoot down the missile, U.S. officials have said.
Bolton said he was continuing discussions with U.N. Security Council members on possible action, and had met with Russia’s U.N. ambassador.
“Obviously the priority remains trying to persuade North Korea not to conduct the launch,” Bolton said at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Oh puleeze. Forget the UN. And forget, forever, the Security Council. This body is not at all concerned with security. NK is like an annoying fly that keep buzzing about and landing here and there. We need to get out the fly swatter and JUST KILL the damn thing- in this case, destroy the weapons and threaten Kim De-HOO-LA whatever his name is- with a guaranteed nuclear reaction to ANY threat, (as defined by us-) he ever makes again. Period.
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:34 am
I knew we shouldn’t have started direct talks with Iran.
Now N. Korea thinks they can intimidate us into direct talks also.
I’m thinking John Bolton should run for President.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm
LOL Now that’s an idea. Can you see how the world would react to THAT??? I love it.
NK is asking for trouble by postering with the wrong people. He might get what he wants— nuclear power the likes he has never seen. I can only hope.
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Glad to see you’re still hoping for a nuclear holocaust. gee I don’t know why the government doesen’t listen to you.