Reality Check
Chosun September 19, 2005
Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program on Monday adopted a statement of principles after all. Its gist is that North Korea will scrap all its nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs, and that the United States will guarantee the North's security and start normalizing relations with the North...
I could not have expressed my angry, skeptical sarcasm better.
...The steps Pyongyang takes in scrapping its nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs will be answered with a timetable for rewards such as diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Japan and free electricity from South Korea.
Chosun are the first ones, to use the term "FREE ELECTRICITY" instead of "energy aid"...
But whether or not things will ever get that far depends on the reactor problem. The international community shares a view that although the provision of light water reactors to Pyongyang was promised a decade ago on the assumption that it is very difficult to make weapons-grade nuclear materials from this type of reactor, it can be done, and it is therefore better for North Korea to have no nuclear facilities at all...
This argument can be made on many many more levels than JUST the weapons aspect.
...But our government must now cease the next phase, where the details of give-and-take are worked out, to persuade the North. It must make Pyongyang clearly understand that the provision of 2 million kilowatts of free electricity is premised on North Korea giving up any thought of nuclear reactors. North Korea must be made to realize that any notion it may have entertained of taking the free electricity from the South and getting the reactors as well is a pipe dream.
Tell it like it is dudes.
Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program on Monday adopted a statement of principles after all. Its gist is that North Korea will scrap all its nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs, and that the United States will guarantee the North's security and start normalizing relations with the North...
I could not have expressed my angry, skeptical sarcasm better.
...The steps Pyongyang takes in scrapping its nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs will be answered with a timetable for rewards such as diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Japan and free electricity from South Korea.
Chosun are the first ones, to use the term "FREE ELECTRICITY" instead of "energy aid"...
But whether or not things will ever get that far depends on the reactor problem. The international community shares a view that although the provision of light water reactors to Pyongyang was promised a decade ago on the assumption that it is very difficult to make weapons-grade nuclear materials from this type of reactor, it can be done, and it is therefore better for North Korea to have no nuclear facilities at all...
This argument can be made on many many more levels than JUST the weapons aspect.
...But our government must now cease the next phase, where the details of give-and-take are worked out, to persuade the North. It must make Pyongyang clearly understand that the provision of 2 million kilowatts of free electricity is premised on North Korea giving up any thought of nuclear reactors. North Korea must be made to realize that any notion it may have entertained of taking the free electricity from the South and getting the reactors as well is a pipe dream.
Tell it like it is dudes.
posted by KnightofGoodMrIronMan at 11:06 PM
5 Comments:
ted turner says that north korea is no threat what so ever...nealenews sept 20/05 has post
Thanks dude. I saw it this morning, and I wrote a fresh post as soon as I could...
that shirt of yours is like a bad dream
I know. That's some black pot too...
you know who would look good in that shirt? Mrs Kim Jung Il
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