12. U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks.
WHAT? The U.S. is refusing to have talks with North Korea? Why those intolerant war mongers! North Korea ought to nuke 'em if they don't want to use diplomacy and negotiation. Here's North Korea making an effort at diplomacy and peace, and the U.S. is spurning their efforts.
If the U.S. demanded one-on-one talks, and North Korea refused, no doubt Bush would call them "evil" and use that to justify attacking them. Even if they are evil (which they are), that doesn't give the U.S. the right to be hypocrites.
Wasn't that part of the U.S. excuse to attack Saddam? He refused diplomacy?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050211/D886D24G0.html
U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks
Feb 11, 10:36 AM (ET)
By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors.
"It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."
North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said.
TG: But I thought the Bush administration didn't care about the UN community? I thought the cowboy was going to do what's right even if the "world community" didn't follow?
In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States.
"We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday.
"If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."
If the U.S. demanded one-on-one talks, and North Korea refused, no doubt Bush would call them "evil" and use that to justify attacking them. Even if they are evil (which they are), that doesn't give the U.S. the right to be hypocrites.
Wasn't that part of the U.S. excuse to attack Saddam? He refused diplomacy?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050211/D886D24G0.html
U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks
Feb 11, 10:36 AM (ET)
By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors.
"It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."
North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said.
TG: But I thought the Bush administration didn't care about the UN community? I thought the cowboy was going to do what's right even if the "world community" didn't follow?
In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States.
"We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday.
"If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."
posted by T.G. at 6:29 PM
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