These days, stuff emanating from Pyongyang goes in one ear and out the other. Anyway, today, we got more “drop your hostile policy” crap and a threat to possible restart missile tests. Fun, fun, fun.
North Korea told the U.S. it should “rebuild the groundwork” for six-nation nuclear disarmament talks by stopping its attempts for a change of regime in the communist country.
The U.S. should “renounce its hostile policy aimed at a regime change in the DPRK, through practical actions and opt for coexisting” with North Korea, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement from Pyongyang carried early today by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The Foreign Ministry said the U.S. should apologize for calling the country an “outpost of tyranny,” a comment that shows the Bush administration’s policy remains to bring down North Korea’s system. The U.S. State Department said after the comments the six-nation talks were the forum for addressing all issues.
You know, if Condie’s comment indicates that Bush’s goal is to bring down the North Korean regime, one can only imagine what the Rodong Shinmun’s March 1 editorial indicates:
A North Korean government mouthpiece marked the 86th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement with a vicious attack on Japan, which it said remained the country’s “bitter enemy”. “Both yesterday and today, Japan is the Korean people’s bitter enemy,” the state-controlled Rodong Sinmun newspaper wrote in an editorial. “We must kindle the flame of the anti-Japanese struggle.”
No hostility there. Anyway, North Korea also threatened to resume missile tests:
North Korea said it was agreed when dialogue was under way with the former US administration of Bill Clinton. It said current US President George W. Bush had cut off talks when he took office in 2001, making the moratorium invalid.
“Accordingly, we are not bound to the moratorium on the missile launch at present,” said a 5,000-word foreign ministry statement explaining why North Korea is boycotting new six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons programs.
Missile tests! Oh no! How are the Iranians going to spend their weekends now?
Actually, I’m really curious to see just far the North Koreans are willing to go to get a rise out of Washington. I’m still waiting for the nuke test.
China apparently wants the U.S. to be more flexible in getting North Korea back to the negotiation table.
Oh, and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports that U.S. spy planes have detected signs that North Korea may be secretly operating another reprocessing center. The fun never stops.
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I say we invite nK to play the bad guys in our Foal Eagle exercise. Enough of this computer simulation crap.
They could shoot their missile over Japan, and the US Navy could shoot it down with an SM-3. Everybody gets training value out of it, so everybody wins!
I submit to you Cox Forkum who have efficiently summed up this regime:
Two-Faced as well as the classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Kim.