For once, I’m inclined to agree with the Blue House. Reuters reports:
North Korea’s hostile weekend reaction to last week’s six-way talks on its nuclear program was an initial response and probably a negotiating ploy, South Korea said on Monday.
The North said on Saturday a hard-line U.S. stance at the Beijing meeting meant there was no point in further talks. A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said Pyongyang was left with no choice but to enhance its nuclear deterrent force.
“It is their first response,” Ban Ki-moon, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s foreign policy adviser, told reporters. “There is a great chance they did it as a strategic move.”
Coincidentally, yesterday’s Rodong Shinmun ran an “editorial” stressing the North’s need for a nuclear deterrent to protect the nation’s sovereignty. But don’t worry - nations that treat the North with amity have nothing to fear. Moreover, the North has never said it would use nuclear weapons to attack the United States or sell them to another country, the editorial made very clear.
Hey, if it’s printed in the Rodong, it must be true.
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