i just saw where north korea has agreed to halt nuclear production by the end of the year in exchange for economic aid.

Derogatory/offensive topic

yer the one being offensive

come and defend your reason for say this is why it should be deleted

is that what it says? lol it doesn't even have a box when i look at it.

yea i know

i think we need a delete the deter button for the id--ts

that do not know what they are doing

GENEVA -

North Korea agreed Sunday to account for and disable its atomic programs by the end of the year, offering its first timeline for a process long sought by nuclear negotiators, the chief U.S. envoy said.

Kim Gye Gwan, head of the North Korean delegation, said separately his country’s willingness to cooperate was clear — in return for “political and economic compensation” — but he mentioned no dates.
Hill, a U.S. assistant secretary of state, said two days of talks between the United States and North Korea in Geneva had been “very good and very substantive” and would help improve chances of a successful meeting later this month with Japan, Russia, South Korea and China in six-nation talks aimed at ending the North’s nuclear weapons program and improving relations between North Korea and other countries.

“One thing that we agreed on is that the DPRK will provide a full declaration of all of their nuclear programs and will disable their nuclear programs by the end of this year, 2007,” Hill told reporters, using the initials for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Hill said the declaration will also include uranium enrichment programs, which the United States fears could be used to make nuclear weapons.

“When we say all nuclear programs, we mean all,” he said.

North Korea 'happy' with talks
He said later in response to a question from The Associated Press that it was the first time that North Korea had ever offered a timeline for declaring and disabling its nuclear program.

Kim said, “We agreed a lot of things between the United States and the DPRK. We are happy with the way the peace talks went.”
“We made it clear, we showed clear willingness to declare and dismantle all nuclear facilities,” he said.

The agreement is “very significant, for sure,” said Patricia Lewis, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, noting that North Korea had allowed U.N. inspectors back into the country and that they could verify what is declared.

“Confidence can increase and we can see whether or not it’s really being shut down,” Lewis said.

Hill declined to say whether the agreement would include more than the plutonium-producing nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, which North Korea shut down in July.

“We have to work out some of the details on that,” Hill told reporters. “We will have a declaration in time to disable what needs to be disabled,” he said, adding that “for example the Yongbyon reactor would have to be included.”

He said he and Kim had discussed a range of issues in their two days of talks at the U.S. and North Korean missions to U.N. offices in Geneva.

Kim said one of those was North Korea’s demand to be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

“In return for this we will receive political and economic compensation,” he said. “We wouldn’t be an enemy country anymore.”

Hill said earlier Sunday that improving U.S. relations with North Korea will depend on other progress in the talks, saying it “is a relationship that we will continue to try to build step by step with the understanding that we’re not going to have a normalized relationship until we have a denuclearized North Korea.”
Next step comes mid-month
He said he expected the next full session of the six-nation talks in mid-September would produce a “more detailed implementation plan for ‘disablement.”’

The meeting in Geneva was part of a flurry of “working group” sessions called for in February’s six-nation accord in which North Korea agreed to disable its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor and declare and eventually dismantle all its nuclear activities.

In exchange, the economically struggling North will receive oil and other aid. The U.S., as part of the agreement, promised to begin the process of removing the country from the terrorism list and work toward full diplomatic relations.

Daniel Pinkston, who heads the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey, Calif.-based Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said, “I believe they’re going to do it.”

But he said it was important that North Korea declare all the uranium enrichment and plutonium stocks.

Years of tension and deadlock over North Korea’s nuclear program — which peaked with the country’s nuclear test last October — have started to ease in recent months as the talks have made progress.

This is the article from MSNBC

Well, it seems that 1/3 just like the delete button.

On topic....sounds like N. Korea is trying to use blackmail or extortion. I figure that we are already giving them aid.

The result of a failed police action (Korean 'war').

yep it is terrorism that is being negotiated with

Yep, Ill believe it when I see it!!

They have already sold Iran enough enriched uranium to build one or two Nukes!!

Or so it has been reported! Now Iran has finished the centrifuges it needs to enrich their own!

Or so its was reported this morning!!

Can anybody say World War Three? With Bush still in office this is a real possibility!

interesting


sure it is not just a lie to invade iran

think about the double standard here

hehehehe

But then, Iran gives one number, and the U.N. nuclear watchdog gives another number which is far lower.
So, what to believe?

Well, I checked, did'nt find that we are giving economic aid to N. Korea.
Did find the folowing, tho.

"Handouts of U.S. taxpayers’ money to Third World countries in the form of traditional foreign aid have failed because they remove essential incentives for the governments of developing countries to open markets, promote a stable economic environment, and thereby let their people build wealth and prosper. Since the end of World War II, the United States has provided more foreign aid to the world than any other country, yet recipients are just as poor now as they were then. Even worse, foreign aid has fostered corruption and irresponsible policymaking."

Not to mention...just about all of those countries hate us.
'Can't buy me love'

yep lets bring that money back here

and help our own people

why should they like us

we are paying for the corruption of their country

i heard somthing about the road being paved with good intentions
somewhere hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


just a thought

my thoughts exactly adj4u.

its bush's fault.

well lets see n korea builds part a

and iraq builds part b

osama transports part a to location c

and then transports part b to location c

then asembles parts a and b

then location c is no longer available

hhhhmmmmmmmmmmm

imagine that

oppps did i say iraq

oh yeah they are not available for that at the moment


changed to iran


hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


interesting thought i think

North Korea declared war on america during the time we were looking for the WOMD this go round with Iraq. I am with fanta. I wont hold my breath either!!!!

They did this same thing with Bill Clinton. If Bush falls for this, I will lose all respect.