N. Korea Says It Will Boycott Nuclear Talks, Restart Weapons Plant - washingtonpost.com »
Posted By gamahuche 7 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsFuming at the U.N. Security Council for condemning its recent missile launch, North Korea said Tuesday it will restart its plutonium factory, junk all its disarmament agreements and "never participate" again in six-country nuclear negotiations.
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gamahuche7 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA:
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Analysts in Seoul said that North Korea, with its threat to pull out of the six-party talks, appeared to be up to its familiar tactics of brinkmanship -- creating a crisis in order to be rewarded for helping to solve it.
"North Korea can use today's walkout as a negotiating chip with the United States in the future," said Koh Yu-whan, a profession of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul. -
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gamahuche7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The North Koreans do love to play tough poker!
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I guess they want to see what kind of a hand Obama will play.
How much bluff, how much substance, how much rationality, how much reaction.
I have to admit that my first response was not an anguished sense of distress that Cowboy George is not the one who is now scheduled to up the ante..-
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gamahuche7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Reuters has a thorough update on this story with the title "Little leverage left for North Korea sanctions" here:
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKTRE53D24...
The substance of the argument is that China is very unlikely to restrict trade with North Korea, which has considerable mineral resources; hence little room for "leverage".
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calitennflo7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually I am not surprised, and it's due to the fact that the uS drug it's feet when N.Korea submitted all the information that the uS wanted on it's nuclear program. But, do not be surprised when the US again takes a position that N. Korea is totally in the pursuit of something that warrants the US intervene militarily.
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The US did not patent the intelligence of humans beings.(if they could, I am sure they would hide it)..and Iran aurgued they were capable intellectually. The patent actually subjects others as acts of war. -
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hyperbola7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Ah, another proponent of magic pudding corruption!
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The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run out
...The good news is that, at the present rate of progress, reliable missile defence is only 50 years away. The bad news is that it has been 50 years away for the past six decades.
The system has been in development since 1946, and so far it has achieved a grand total of nothing. You wouldn't know it if you read the press releases published by the Pentagon's missile defence agency: the word "success" features more often than any other noun. It is true that the programme has managed to hit two out of the five missiles fired over the past five years during tests of its main component, the ground-based midcourse missile defence (GMD) system. But, sadly, these tests bear no relation to anything resembling a real nuclear strike.
All the trials run so far - successful or otherwise - have been rigged. The target, its type, trajectory and destination, are known before the test begins. Only one enemy missile is used, as the system doesn't have a hope in hell of knocking down two or more. If decoy missiles are deployed, they bear no resemblance to the target and they are identified as decoys in advance. In order to try to enhance the appearance of success, recent flight tests have become even less realistic: the agency has now stopped using decoys altogether when testing its GMD system.
... Missile defence is so expensive and the measures required to evade it so cheap that if the US government were serious about making the system work it would bankrupt the country, just as the arms race helped to bring the Soviet Union down. By spending a couple of billion dollars on decoy technologies, Russia would commit the US to trillions of dollars of countermeasures. The cost ratios are such that even Iran could outspend the US.
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earthlingerer7 months, 3 weeks ago
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They're worried. The little guy in high heels with the big hair is going to die soon, and they don't have anyone to replace him.
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If you don't already have a new dictator chosen, you can't put policy in stone. Things could change.
...So they shake stuff up to see who falls where, for now.
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