Chris Hill is telling the North Koreans it’s time to “make a decision.” Personally, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass either way.
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Six-party talks reaching end
This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on February 12, 2007 at 12:45 pm, filed under Asides, North Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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I think you can drop the “North”. It seems from the news reports that this is as much about telling the South to really put its money where its Han is. None of the other parties apparently wants to pony up the cost of self-described The Little Turd’s Hennessey invoice - particularly since it doesn’t appear that the NORKS are willing to take anything but “preliminary steps”.
Can we start carpet bombing the north already?
I saw the Assistant Secretary of State, Christopher Hill, on SBS this morning and through the Korean over-dub I could hear something like, “they’ve got a lot of thinking to do, there is a lot to do, but if they don’t want to… I’ll see if I can catch an earlier flight back home tomorrow.”
Poor guy sounds like he wasted a lot of time talking to a brick wall.
I bet he wishes he had his old job back. I like him better than boot-lips Vershbow.
I really feel sorry for Hill since he apparently can only offer “carrots” to the norks, who keep making outrageous demands, and he can’t lay down the smack (e.g. “You think the sanctions on you now hurt, you ain’t seen nothing”) or press China to any great extent. The whole thing is a farce anyway as long as everybody lets the norks decide when to talk.
This may result in a pseudo-agreement which is just the US sweeping things under the rug.
The US is pulling troops out of Korea so that it can concentrate in attacking Iran. NK nuke is not a big deal for the US; it is basically a problem for SK and Japan. The US can just walk away from the table and let these countries solve their local problem.
And, the US is doing that. It is settling for a cursory inspection of suspected nuke facility (NK facility will be somewhere else) in exchange for having SK supply oils to NK.
Basically, NK nuke is not a problem for the US. North Korea will continue to build nuke weapon and even sell to other countries. However, as long as NK does not sell to Iran, it is OK for the US.
The US is concentrating on Iran. The war will start before the end of this year.
If the US is in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran at the end of 2007, we just might see Unification after all.
its been a long time since those three countries were unified. couple of hundred years nearly.
G-d help them if the wall falls!
An interesting comment: “The US is pulling troops out of Korea so that it can concentrate in attacking Iran. NK nuke is not a big deal for the US; it is basically a problem for SK and Japan. The US can just walk away from the table and let these countries solve their local problem.”
On the surface of things, this is how the current socio-political context seems to be defined. However, looked at another way:
The U.S. has a major military presence here due to the LOCALS’ HISTORICAL IRRESPONSIBILITY regarding maintaining a state of peace (vis-a-vis WWII and the Korean War).
China: Hates Japan, resents Korea and the U.S. and tolerates the north; and would loathe any military activity due to the economic consequences for its domestic economy.
Korea: Hates Japan, resents China and the U.S., and tolerates the north; and is afraid of any military activity in the region.
Japan: Resents the U.S., Korea, China and the north; and is confident of militarily dominating Asia if it would be deemed necessary.
The north: hates everybody; anxiously welcomes military action even at the risk of losing everything, because, at this point, they have little to lose.
The U.S.: Hates the north, resents China, and Korea, and likes Japan; was never invited to Asia, but has been happy attempting to be a neutral, honest broker for peace in the region for the past 50+ years.
Honestly, take the U.S. forces out of Asia (Korea, at the very least), please.
The people here are ready for a major region-wide conflict (that would range even into Phillipines and Taiwan).
Take the global police force out and what would happen? Imagine Asia without the U.S. It’s only a single, huge, anti- public protest away from a war.
In an Asia without the U.S., imagine the Koreans holding a single anti-Japan demonstration, burning effigies of Abe. Without an outside, honest modertor, the Japanese are going to get together and kick someone’s ass for the indignity.
You people in Asia need to learn to control yourselves and your emotions better.
Good Weekly Standard article on North Korea’s various forms of racketeering methods of obtaining foreign exchange.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/.....6jebuj.asp
Sine qua non,
These Asian countries are like countries in Europe at the beginnig of the last century. They have to go through at least two gigantic wars to learn that the war is not the solution.
But, they have to have the wars to learn that lesson!
Great news for Detroit auto industry. I also project the US national debt will be reduced to zero and I may get $3000 per month for social security in next decade.