Comments | reality_hammer: North Korea blinks

reality_hammer

North Korea blinks

Sep 19, 2005 15:36

After years of diplomatic temper-tantrums North Korea has finally agreed to stop building nuclear weapons:
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea agreed Monday to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament ( Read more... )

arms control, wmd, north korea

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quiet_reverie September 19 2005, 21:17:20 UTC

Is their word even trust worthy? *shiver*

pfchidron September 19 2005, 21:34:08 UTC

Is it just me, or is this more of a win for North Korea, seeing as how we ceased giving them 'energy aid' back in 1994 and now we've been more or less 'blackmailed' into giving it back to them?

reality_hammer September 20 2005, 00:51:10 UTC

Actually under the 1994 agreement we had been sending them crude oil and fuel for their reactors.

shadowfox24 September 19 2005, 23:47:51 UTC

They blinked alright. We opened up our wallet yet again and Kim blinked while saying "Is all that for me? Yippie!"

Fool me once.... reality_hammer September 20 2005, 00:52:16 UTC

lol

It remains to be seen whether President Bush will be as naive as President Clinton was.

felinoid September 20 2005, 02:51:29 UTC

They are having trubble getting the missle to work.
As soon as they have it fixed they'll renig.

hunterkirk September 20 2005, 05:03:19 UTC

"The key, of course, is whether North Korea lives up to its promises. It hasn't for the past 20 years, so we need to follow Ronald Reagan's advise to "trust, but verify".

It isn't going to happen. They would never trust anyone to have open inspection of there sites. They hardle trust people to even set foot in to their nation. Secondly they will play the "Clinton Duped" game... in other words "Sure we will stop creating nuclear weapons just give up a nuclear reactor and all the technology and tools to create nuclear weapons... I mean power and we will hide... I mean scrap out nuclear weapon program."

nutts2020 September 21 2005, 17:24:03 UTC

well, didn't take them long to change their tune:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169986,00.html

reality_hammer September 21 2005, 17:32:35 UTC

I know, they must think Clinton is still in office.

nutts2020 September 21 2005, 18:43:42 UTC

nah; they recognise a nutter with an itchy finger when they see one...