Comments on: Secret NK nuke deal in the works? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/ Korea... in Blog Format Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:22:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Linkd http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147356 Linkd Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:41:50 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147356 FT today: <blockquote>In the past, the Bush administration has insisted that North Korea could only be trusted if it accounted for its previous nuclear activities. A second official explained that the US had decided it was more important to focus on the plutonium programme, which produced the nuclear bomb North Korea tested in 2006, than to try to get an admission about past activities. “Why, if the Syrian reactor is gone, do we need to have the North confess completely?” he said. “Negotiation is the art of the possible. This is a regime that is incapable of certain things, and it is incapable of doing that.” The official said the US could “negotiate for the next 100 years trying to get these guys to fess up, or you can get them to acknowledge that they did this without them going into specifics”. “This is not going to be an ideal agreement. That just is not doable under the circumstances,” said the official.</blockquote> FT today:

In the past, the Bush administration has insisted that North Korea could only be trusted if it accounted for its previous nuclear activities. A second official explained that the US had decided it was more important to focus on the plutonium programme, which produced the nuclear bomb North Korea tested in 2006, than to try to get an admission about past activities.

“Why, if the Syrian reactor is gone, do we need to have the North confess completely?” he said. “Negotiation is the art of the possible. This is a regime that is incapable of certain things, and it is incapable of doing that.”

The official said the US could “negotiate for the next 100 years trying to get these guys to fess up, or you can get them to acknowledge that they did this without them going into specifics”.

“This is not going to be an ideal agreement. That just is not doable under the circumstances,” said the official.

]]> By: RALF http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147353 RALF Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:31:15 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147353 Just letting the Koreans feel a little isolated and experience a bit of their "Where the Sun Don't Shine Policy." Any agreement will be worthless anyway as the North has a unique way of always breaking them. Just letting the Koreans feel a little isolated and experience a bit of their “Where the Sun Don’t Shine Policy.” Any agreement will be worthless anyway as the North has a unique way of always breaking them.

]]> By: Andy Jackson http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147352 Andy Jackson Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:27:48 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147352 Thanks. Thanks.

]]> By: Joshua http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147306 Joshua Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:33:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147306 I hereby grant you a 99-year license to the use of "Agreed Framework 2.0." I hereby grant you a 99-year license to the use of “Agreed Framework 2.0.”

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147227 sanshinseon Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:31:32 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147227 Well, a certain outgoing Administration desperately needs a "foreign policy victory" within this year, just so that historians will not declare their entire eight years of international dealings as absolute and total disastrous failure and blunder -- and so any deal with any bad-guys will do. A rough and unfortunate situation... but in the triage, the interests of South Korea and its new administration can be sacrificed towards this greater goal of "saving face American-style". Well, a certain outgoing Administration desperately needs a “foreign policy victory” within this year, just so that historians will not declare their entire eight years of international dealings as absolute and total disastrous failure and blunder — and so any deal with any bad-guys will do. A rough and unfortunate situation… but in the triage, the interests of South Korea and its new administration can be sacrificed towards this greater goal of “saving face American-style”.

]]> By: cm http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/04/12/secret-nk-nuke-deal-in-the-works/#comment-147116 cm Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:17:46 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=6427#comment-147116 So let me get this straight. After all that time condemning South Korean treachery against making deals with the unreliable NK and accusing S.Koreans of being anti Americans for smoozing up with the enemy, the US turns around and makes their own deal with the devil - just as a new hard line S.Korean government comes to power. What happened to all the moral outrage of not negotiating with terrorists? So let me get this straight. After all that time condemning South Korean treachery against making deals with the unreliable NK and accusing S.Koreans of being anti Americans for smoozing up with the enemy, the US turns around and makes their own deal with the devil - just as a new hard line S.Korean government comes to power.

What happened to all the moral outrage of not negotiating with terrorists?

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