...The reclusive North says it had nothing to do with the downing of the Cheonan, which sank after an explosion, killing 46 sailors. A South Korean military intelligence report leaked to the local media said the North had almost certainly torpedoed the ship.
"Just as the investigation is being conducted with international cooperation, we'll try to cooperate with the international community in taking necessary measures when the results are out," President Lee Myung-bak told a group of visiting foreign journalists.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that North Korea should not take provocative actions following the allegations it may have sunk the South Korean ship, and should resume talks on ending its nuclear programs.
"We have said time and time again that the North Koreans should not engage in provocative actions, and that they should return to six-party talks," she told reporters at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Estonia.
The sinking of the ship is an issue fraught with risks for South Korea's Lee....
As far as I am concerned, Kim already declared war. When he called the South Korean President it was to insight retaliation to 'give Kim an excuse.' Incoming means nothing to him. Nothing. He fully expected a ground attack and thought he would have the upper hand in 'first launch.'
There needs to be a clear voice coming into the North Korean military leadership from the West. They need to have a conscience for their people.
Dialogue with the North's military leaders now. Don't wait. Kim doesn't care about any nuclear cloud that effects the North. It will happen.
TALK PAST KIM !!!
Get the North Koreans to understand the brevity of their decisions regarding commands coming from their President. Our military Joint Chiefs would call the President 'on the carpet' about such decisions if it were unwarranted, the Korean military leadership should act in the same capacity. I would also be very frank to the outcome of aggression. GIVE THEM INFORMATION.
These incidents go directly back to the Axis of Evil speech. You know, when the USA has a President with a mouth designed by Rove, these are the consequences. There are consequences, real life consequences, to words President's speak. Neocons. And I hear Cheney is running his mouth again. No doubt Cheney relishes the another war.
David Frum coined that phrase. He originally called it 'the axis of hatred' and then changed it to evil. The speech that brought the phrase into global conscienceness was the State of the Union on January 29, 2002. It became a household word for Bush and his administration after that.
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron#2002
As far as I am concerned, Kim already declared war. When he called the South Korean President it was to insight retaliation to 'give Kim an excuse.' Incoming means nothing to him. Nothing. He fully expected a ground attack and thought he would have the upper hand in 'first launch.'
There needs to be a clear voice coming into the North Korean military leadership from the West. They need to have a conscience for their people.
Dialogue with the North's military leaders now. Don't wait. Kim doesn't care about any nuclear cloud that effects the North. It will happen.
TALK PAST KIM !!!
Get the North Koreans to understand the brevity of their decisions regarding commands coming from their President. Our military Joint Chiefs would call the President 'on the carpet' about such decisions if it were unwarranted, the Korean military leadership should act in the same capacity. I would also be very frank to the outcome of aggression. GIVE THEM INFORMATION.
These incidents go directly back to the Axis of Evil speech. You know, when the USA has a President with a mouth designed by Rove, these are the consequences. There are consequences, real life consequences, to words President's speak. Neocons. And I hear Cheney is running his mouth again. No doubt Cheney relishes the another war.
David Frum coined that phrase. He originally called it 'the axis of hatred' and then changed it to evil. The speech that brought the phrase into global conscienceness was the State of the Union on January 29, 2002. It became a household word for Bush and his administration after that.
,,,December 22-24, 2002: North Korea (see link below) cuts all seals and disrupts IAEA surveillance equipment on its nuclear facilities and materials. An IAEA spokesman says December 26 that North Korea started moving fresh fuel rods into the reactor, suggesting that it might be restarted soon.
December 27, 2002: North Korea orders IAEA inspectors out of the country. They leave on December 31,,,.
THREATS AND RESPONSES: ASIAN ARENA (click here)
THREATS AND RESPONSES: ASIAN ARENA; North Korea to Reactivate An Idled Nuclear Reactor
By HOWARD W. FRENCH with DAVID E. SANGER
Published: December 13, 2002
TOKYO, Dec. 12— In a challenge to the United States, North Korea said today that it was immediately reactivating a nuclear reactor idled since a 1994 crisis that nearly led to war between the countries.The reactor at Yongbyon is capable of producing enough plutonium for the country to make one or two nuclear weapons a year, according to American intelligence officials.
North Korea justified the decision -- the latest in a sharply downward spiral in relations with Washington -- by declaring it the only way to produce electricity to make up for the recent suspension of fuel oil deliveries from the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union. The fuel cutoff, in turn, was announced as a punishment for a secret nuclear weapons program, whose existence American diplomats say North Korea first acknowledged during an American visit in early October.
''The prevailing situation compelled the D.P.R.K. government to lift its nuclear freeze adopted on the premise that 500,000 tons of heavy oil would be annually supplied,'' North Korea's Foreign Ministry announced, using the initials for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name. ''Whether the D.P.R.K. refreezes its nuclear facilities or not hinges upon the U.S.'...
...Nearly five years after President Bush introduced the concept of an "axis of evil" (click here) comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the administration has reached a crisis point with each nation: North Korea has claimed it conducted its first nuclear test, Iran refuses to halt its uranium-enrichment program, and Iraq appears to be tipping into a civil war 3 1/2 years after the U.S.-led invasion....
Then it took on all kinds of rhetorical spins, "Beyond the Axis of Evil,' "Outposts of Tyranny." Oh, they were winners alright.
It was shortly after that speech in 2002 when North Korea removed the 'seals' from its nuclear reactor and restarted its nuclear program.
North Korea Seizes Part of Resort Operated With South (see link below)
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Published: April 23, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea confiscated five facilities owned by South Korea at a jointly operated mountain resort on Friday, and it called South Korea’s president a “traitor” and accused him of defaming the North’s most important holiday....
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/world/asia/24korea.html?scp=2&sq=north%20korea&st=cse
While the USA was in the throes of the Paulson/Bush financial circus there were seals removed from a second facility in North Korea.
VIENNA (AFP) — North Korea asked the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday to remove seals and surveillance equipment from a key nuclear facility, the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday, amid a deadlock over a disarmament deal.The request came three days after North Korea confirmed it was working to restart the Yongbyon reactor and no longer wanted US concessions promised under the landmark agreement in return for its denuclearisation.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the Vienna-based agency's 35-member board of governors that North Korean officials asked the agency's inspectors earlier Monday to remove the seals and surveillance equipment....
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hgBNILbqXGv20xkKGGMmBIEdyRIg
