North Korea: Ten Years After Kim Il Sung

North Koreans, from children to the elderly, commemorate late North Korean leader Kim Il-sung before Kim’s statute on the Mansudae Hill on Thursday. North Korean people paid tribute toward Geumsusan Palace where Kim Il-sung’s remains are in state, as a siren went off at noon for three minutes across the nation. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of Kim’s death. /Yonhap

Pyongyang (The Government Seat), North Korea uses it's nuclar clout all the time to get assistance for it's people.

This is not unusual. If the North Korean's have and had nuclear weapons for some time now, then I am not surprised. In actuality, this is a defense for North Korea as an immediate threat to South Korea, possibly the west coast of the USA. It is a bargaining chip. Bush does a great job doesn't he? He has endangered and killed more people in his first term than any president on record. With every country turning back to the Cold War it is safe to estimate Bush's reach of potential for killing surpasses anything Nazi Germany could do. Then add to that uncontrolled Global Warming and the statistics really get interesting.

I am not worried about North Korea. They know they cannot launch and aggressive strike against anyone without complete annihilation of that country and those people. Pyongyang is not that stupid. They should accept the respect the world offers them and return to the negotiations to receive whatever the world can offer to assist an impoverished country the opportunity to improve their people's quality of life.

N Korea's statement in full

Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) - The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement Thursday to clarify its stand to cope with the grave situation created by the US hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The statement says:

The second-term Bush administration's intention to antagonize the DPRK and isolate and stifle it at any cost has become quite clear.

As we have clarified more than once, we justly urged the US to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK whose aim was to seek the latter's "regime change" and switch its policy to that of peaceful co-existence between the two countries. We have closely followed with patience what policy the second-term Bush regime would shape after clarifying the stand that in that case it would be possible to solve the nuclear issue, too.

However, the administration turned down our just request and adopted it as its policy not to co-exist with the DPRK through the president's inaugural address and the state of the union address and the speech made by the secretary of State at the Congress hearing to get its approval, etc.

The remarks made by senior officials of the administration clarifying the official political stance of the US contained no word showing any willingness to co-exist with the DPRK or make a switchover in its policy toward it.

On the contrary, they have declared it as their final goal to terminate the tyranny, defined the DPRK, too, as an "outpost of tyranny" and blustered that they would not rule out the use of force when necessary.

And they pledged to build a world based on the US view on value through the "spread of American style liberty and democracy."

The true intention of the second-term Bush administration is ...

I KNOW THESE words by Pyongyang are sincere and I am confident the USA's words have been controlling and insincere. I don't blame them. Bush is a criminal.

World urges North Korea back to nuclear negotiations

TOKYO (AP) — North Korea's statement Thursday that it had nuclear weapons and would boycott talks on its atomic programs was seen as a possible negotiating gambit, and governments urged it to return to the bargaining table.

North and South Korea need to resolve issues without regard for Bush's America. They need to find common ground. I really think the USA is a hindrence to this situation and not an asset. Russia, China and Japan along with the neighboring countries on that peninsula are the only nations that belong at the 'PEACE Tables."

Yongbyon Nuclear Facility is the concern of so many. 

conti2005 is the name I used on the New York Times message boards. When they closed down the message boards, I stored my thoughts here.

January 23, 2005

By Thomas Friedman
Paris — There's only one thing you can say about the elections in Iraq (click here): They are either going to be the end of the beginning there or the beginning of the end.
Either Iraqis turn out in large numbers to take control of their own future and write their own constitution - and I think they will - or the fascist insurgents there prevent them from doing so, in which case the Bush team will have to move to Plan B. What's sad is that right when we have reached crunch time in Iraq, the West is totally divided. All that the Europeans care about is being able to say to George Bush, "We told you so." What happens the morning after "We told you so" ? Well, the Europeans don't have a Plan B either.
Ever since 9/11, I've argued the war on terrorism is really a war of ideas within the Muslim world - a war between those who want to wall Islam off from modernity, and defend it with a suicide cult, and those who want to bring Islam into the 21st century and preserve it as a compassionate faith. This war of ideas is not one that the West can fight, only promote. Muslims have to fight it from within. That is what is at stake in the Iraqi elections. This is the first great battle in the post-9/11 war of ideas....

February 10, 2005
By conti2005

The Revolt and the Revolting
In God I Trust, Everyone Else I Monitor You are too long winded, Mr. Friedman.

There was an illegal invasion. There are hostilities and rightfully so. The people of Iraq managed to pull off an election whereby a majority of the country was able to elect. The votes are counted and the new administration needs to be announced.

The New Iraqi Administration has a mess to contend with and the sooner they get started the better. A complete ethnic group has become estranged from the new government because Bush recklessly destroyed Fallujah. Now, the Sunnis are not only protesting but bombing and killing and destroying everyday. 

IF a Shi'ite majority loves the idea of an autonomous government so much that they are willing to lead their country, NOT OUR COUNTRY, into a peaceful resolve then it is time they got started without delay. The future of Iraq belongs to them and I find you 'extravagant' fawning/falling/drooling all over that country offensive. What's the issue? Control? The USA has no more control. The sovereign state of Iraq is awaiting the announcement of it's new administration. They know who they are, they need to have their agenda in order and move things along to bring everyone under one roof if not one ethnic worship.