This good be good News and a positive sign . . .

[news.yahoo.com]

The United States announced a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea Wednesday.
Under an agreement reached in direct talks in Beijing last week, North Korea has agreed to allow the return of nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile tests, nuclear tests, and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities, the State Department said. In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a large food aid package.

"To improve the atmosphere for dialogue and demonstrate its commitment to de-nuclearization, the DPRK has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear tests and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a press statement Wednesday. "The DPRK has also agreed to the return of IAEA inspectors to verify and monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment activities at Yongbyon and confirm the disablement of the 5-MW reactor and associated facilities."

Despite the breakthrough, "the United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas," Nuland's statement cautioned. But she added that "today's announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these."

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I missed that part of the article. I suppose if one is in a cracked induced stupor hallucinations might occur.
I did appreciate the trade off though. I personally have worked with several hundred South Korean students, some who have actually met and had discourse with North Koreans. Naturally and hypothetically speaking, if ones head is deeply planted in their arse it is difficult to see or imagine the light of day. I suppose naivete can be compounded by ignorance. ymmv




"""In return, the United States will "move forward with our proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance along with the intensive monitoring required for the delivery of such assistance," she said."""
"""The return of nuclear inspectors to North Korea for the first time in three years would be a "very positive development," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel, said in a statement Wednesday. And he added, the United States has a humanitarian interest in helping the North Korean people receive food aid. "Resuming nutritional assistance to the DPRK is the right thing to do if we can ensure our aid will reach those in need."""

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy




Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2012 03:43AM by haikuman.

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I only have a passing familiarity with that graph. WHy is it so optimistic during the Cuban missile crisis?

It's good news, but hard for me to trust them. We've got quite a few North Koreans living and working here in Japan. It's a complicated situation, but aren't they all?

I would trust 'lil Kim as far as Hilary Clinton could throw him. They are continuing to sucker us.

The only real chance would involve a complete regime change and freedom for the people who have lived under a chain of insane tyrants since 1948.

To bad I can not type or say what I mean *(:>*
This could be good news . . . and surely they have suckered us before . . . I prefer to imagine the positive. It just seems like we might just give peace a chance *(:>*

The article also clearly stated :

"Despite the breakthrough, "the United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas," Nuland's statement cautioned. But she added that "today's announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these."

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy

They'll take the aide, feed the soldiers and claim we tried to poison them.

Smart move is take the leadership out with a few well placed rounds from a Chinese made sniper rifle.

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They'll take the aide, feed the soldiers and claim we tried to poison them.

Smart move is take the leadership out with a few well placed rounds from a Chinese made sniper rifle.

Sounds like a plausible Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum plot *(:>* with a twist of Robin Williams humor *(:>*

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy

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I get this response to your link Ted

Bad Request

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy

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haikuman
I get this response to your link Ted

Bad Request

Error 400

Argh! Sorry about that. I was trying to give a link to a "Quick view" of a PDF file via a Google search. Here is a link to a Google search with the file I meant to link to at the top of the search results, "U.S. Diplomacy with North Korea During the Bush Administration" by Ed Shin of Princeton University.

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From the introduction:

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An analysis of the George W. Bush administration’s policies toward North Korea provides some lessons in diplomacy for the Obama administration. Its first term was plagued with strategic and diplomatic errors that gave North Korea a free hand to accelerate the development of its nuclear program. Though the multilateral engagement of its second term yielded diplomatic triumphs, the end result was that things ended up almost exactly where they had started, except that North Korea had become a declared nuclear power.

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I missed that part of the article. I suppose if one is in a cracked induced stupor hallucinations might occur.
I did appreciate the trade off though. I personally have worked with several hundred South Korean students, some who have actually met and had discourse with North Koreans. Naturally and hypothetically speaking, if ones head is deeply planted in their arse it is difficult to see or imagine the light of day. I suppose naivete can be compounded by ignorance. ymmv




"""In return, the United States will "move forward with our proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance along with the intensive monitoring required for the delivery of such assistance," she said."""
"""The return of nuclear inspectors to North Korea for the first time in three years would be a "very positive development," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel, said in a statement Wednesday. And he added, the United States has a humanitarian interest in helping the North Korean people receive food aid. "Resuming nutritional assistance to the DPRK is the right thing to do if we can ensure our aid will reach those in need."""

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