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If at First You Don’t Get North Korea to Disarm ...Posted on Oct 1, 2008While Americans from the president on down were preoccupied with the financial meltdown, the disarmament deal with North Korea was quietly falling apart. Actually, talks with the nuclear hermit state have been on the rocks for some time, and have only grown more complicated since Kim Jong Il went MIA. America’s top diplomat on the case, Christopher Hill, has been dispatched to Pyongyang to try to resolve the standstill. It’s not clear what happens if North Korea says no.
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By lichen, October 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm Link to this comment
The US is the one who reneged on the deal; delivering on none of their own promises after North Korea had complied with the deal completely. North Korea has every right to back out if the other players won’t cooperate.
I’d like a six-party talk to convince the US to give up it’s rogue weapons and deliver its own autocrat to the Hague.
Report thisBy Blackspeare, October 1, 2008 at 7:26 am Link to this comment
This is pretty much SOP for the DPRK. They first reluctantly agree to the proposal, then when the time is right renege hoping to get a better deal which they will get. As for Kim Jong Il, he’s just a shadow of his father. The DPRK is a military dictatorship disguised as an ordinary dictatorship.
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