Delator
18-12-2006, 22:38
Yeah...that's about what I expected.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/18/nkorea.talks.reut/index.html
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- North Korea and the United States stood poles apart on Monday as talks on scrapping the communist state's nuclear arms resumed after a year-long hiatus.
Addressing the six-party forum, Pyongyang's chief delegate demanded an end to U.N. sanctions, U.S. financial curbs and a reactor before it would consider disarmament.
In response to this "exhaustive list", chief U.S. envoy Christopher Hill warned his interlocutor that Washington's patience had "reached its limits", said a source close to the first talks session since North Korea tested a nuclear device in October.
North Korea's opening speech took a "department store approach", presenting "an exhaustive list of all its demands" and demanding that Washington end its "hostile policy" before Pyongyang would agree to rein in its nuclear programs, a South Korean official told reporters.
The other five countries at the table -- host China, the United States, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- want to see North Korea take concrete steps to implement a joint statement agreed in September 2005.
In that statement, North Korea agreed in principle to give up nuclear weapons in return for aid and security guarantees.
But North Korean chief negotiator Kim Kye-gwan said his country would not consider implementing the agreement until U.S. and United Nations financial sanctions on it were lifted, the source said.
Washington imposed its financial curbs more than a year ago after determining that Pyongyang was engaged in money-laundering and counterfeiting American currency. The U.N. leveled sanctions in October after condemning the North's nuclear test.
Kim said it was his country's ultimate goal to abandon its nuclear programs, but he also demanded the North be provided with a light-water nuclear reactor to meet its civilian energy needs and substitute energy aid until the reactor is completed in order for it to begin doing so, the source said.
Is NK ever going to learn that they have to follow through with disarmarment to get what they want? One would think that, having beat this horse long after death, they would try another course of action.
But hell...it's not like the government there is accountable to it's people or anything. I'm sure the tune won't change anytime soon. :(
EDIT: 2500 posts! W00t!!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/18/nkorea.talks.reut/index.html
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- North Korea and the United States stood poles apart on Monday as talks on scrapping the communist state's nuclear arms resumed after a year-long hiatus.
Addressing the six-party forum, Pyongyang's chief delegate demanded an end to U.N. sanctions, U.S. financial curbs and a reactor before it would consider disarmament.
In response to this "exhaustive list", chief U.S. envoy Christopher Hill warned his interlocutor that Washington's patience had "reached its limits", said a source close to the first talks session since North Korea tested a nuclear device in October.
North Korea's opening speech took a "department store approach", presenting "an exhaustive list of all its demands" and demanding that Washington end its "hostile policy" before Pyongyang would agree to rein in its nuclear programs, a South Korean official told reporters.
The other five countries at the table -- host China, the United States, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- want to see North Korea take concrete steps to implement a joint statement agreed in September 2005.
In that statement, North Korea agreed in principle to give up nuclear weapons in return for aid and security guarantees.
But North Korean chief negotiator Kim Kye-gwan said his country would not consider implementing the agreement until U.S. and United Nations financial sanctions on it were lifted, the source said.
Washington imposed its financial curbs more than a year ago after determining that Pyongyang was engaged in money-laundering and counterfeiting American currency. The U.N. leveled sanctions in October after condemning the North's nuclear test.
Kim said it was his country's ultimate goal to abandon its nuclear programs, but he also demanded the North be provided with a light-water nuclear reactor to meet its civilian energy needs and substitute energy aid until the reactor is completed in order for it to begin doing so, the source said.
Is NK ever going to learn that they have to follow through with disarmarment to get what they want? One would think that, having beat this horse long after death, they would try another course of action.
But hell...it's not like the government there is accountable to it's people or anything. I'm sure the tune won't change anytime soon. :(
EDIT: 2500 posts! W00t!!