In the Korea Times, the University of Georgia’s Han S. Park — apparently a buddy of President-elect Obama’s foreign policy advisor Frank Jannuzi — thinks North Korea will give up its nukes… if the conditions are right. And those conditions?
Q: Some people keep raising doubt on whether North Korea will give up nuclear weapons. Will it?
A: My response to that is yes. North Korea is expected to relinquish its nuclear programs and weapons themselves, if the arrangements are right. Then, you will ask what arrangements will be considered by North Koreans to be sufficient for them to give up their weapons?
Firstly, security assurance. In fact, North Koreans are saying, and I think that’s correct from their point of view that they want the United States to give up hostile attitude and policies toward North Korea. For North Koreans, security assurance is the very key. No country, including North Korea, is expected to relinquish its security interest in exchange for economic and political interest. We cannot buy off North Korean nuclear arms. No matter how large the amount, North Korea is not going to relinquish its nuclear arms for money. It’s not an economic matter. We have to address North Korea’s security concerns if, in fact, we’re going to press North Korea effectively to compromise its security means.
Q: What assurances does North Korea want?
A: Firstly, stop the (South Korea-U.S.) joint military exercises. For North Korea, it’s a direct expression of hostility. Secondly, the conversion of armistice agreement into a peace pact. Thirdly, they want the mission of the U.S. military in South Korea to be redefined so that North Korea will not be the primary enemy target. Fourthly, they want American sanctions to be lifted. North Koreans are not interested in symbolic implication of it. They are interested in the prospect of U.S. lifting of trade sanctions and political sanctions imposed on North Korea. Sanctions include not only the bilateral one with the United States, but also the one imposed by the multinational ones, that is, the United Nations. Finally, diplomatic normalization with the U.S. I think that will be sufficient. Then, North Korea will give up everything.
OK, so all it will take is an end to joint exercises with a close US ally, the mission of US troops to be redirected at some other country (maybe the Mongolians?), the lifting of economic and political sanctions, and diplomatic normalization?
Where do we sign? Maybe we’ll send Jessica Alba over to jack-off Kim Jong-il as service.
Isn’t being neck-deep in Korean affairs for reasons that died long ago fun?
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I think that this guy Han has done good service as a useful idiot by making it clear how intractable the NORK problem really is. The only thing he failed to mention is Kim Jong Il’s demand for a bail-out – whether the NORKS’ or his own – at least equal to that proffered to AIG (otherwise it wouldn’t be “fair”)– all cash of course, no equity interests in the Workers’ Paradise allowed.
this is scary.
a stupid gyop, who is an Obama supporter, essentially re-mouthing standard pro-North Korean doctrine mouthed by candle light protesters in the tradition of Noh Moohyun, Chung Dongyong, Kim Daejung.
when will stupid gyops even realize this?
well, now we have a real life Korean commie, as a friend to the Obama administration.
Change is coming.
i wonder what that idiot “cm” will say about this.
Forget about all those conditions, send Jessica over to my house, let someone cram this dumb-arsed gyopo’s head in the toilet and Kim Jong-il can go f*ck himself.
Ah yes, let’s trust North Korea to make money. Perhaps they’ll wean themselves off peddling WMD, the Japanese heroin trade, counterfeit US dollars and illicit pharmaceutical drugs that make up 25% of their economy.
The same North Koreans who were shivering in their timbers when the US froze $25 m in those suspicious Macao accounts.
IMF and World Bank loans indeed. I’m guessing they’ll spend the money on their infrastructure. My question though: does the barbed wire at Yodok count as “infrastructure?”
wjk is scary.
a stupid kor-am, who is a Bush supporter, essentially re-mouthing standard pro-South Korean troll doctrine mouthed by auto worker protestors in the tradition of… oh, why bother? wjk, your annoying multi-posting xenophobic blather screams that you are a fascist with no island to rule. Go stick your head back in the sand…
Please tell me somebody else has read this using their POV monitor on, realizing that this guy is trying to express what the North Koreans want… he is not actually expressing his opinion… For example, if I say, “The Palestinians want their own country and to drive Israel into the ocean,” this does not mean I agree with that statement…
Maybe instead of concentrating on ridiculing and criticizing a no name KT reporter reporting from a two bit paper, how about giving the same critical piece of mind to president Obama and his administration for a change? Because frankly, I don’t see nearly the same amount of outrage in the K-blogsphere that were reserved for Korean names not too long ago. You know, all the concerns for North Koreans due to the policies of the South Korean government of the past administration? Remember? Because the KT reporter or even the president of South Korea doesn’t have nearly as much power and influence as the president of the Unite States.
Once again, Bipolar Mindscrew has expressed my viewpoint… what is scary is wjk’s interpretation of the account the deductions he draws, and the unfounded argumentum ad hominen he makes…
When it comes to politics, WJK seems to know what he is talking about.
When it comes to wjk’s politics, gbevers doesn’t seem to know what he is talking about…
News just in is that the North will close the border from December 1st due to tensions rising to a “dangerous” level, effectively killing off the Kaesong industrial complex.
“North Korea closes border to south”
Do they actually think anybody is stupid enough to fall for that blank treat? Sometimes they sound so retarded. They are so pathetic I wish they would actually nuke the South. So I wouldn’t have to listen to their crap anymore.
“When it comes to politics, WJK seems to know what he is talking about.”
Yes… provided of course wjk is actually Bizarro in disguise.
I think the KT (and probably Han himself) is overstating Han’s ties to and influence the Obama team here. If I recall correctly, Han has a long history of making excuses for North Korean behavior. The KT has been a patsie for the DPRK since at least the Kim Dae-jung era.
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