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Korea
N.Korea Vows No Nuclear Concessions, Cites Iraq
2003-03-29
North Korea vowed on Saturday to resist all international demands on the communist state to allow nuclear inspections or agree to disarm, saying Iraq had made this mistake and was now paying the price. "The DPRK would have already met the same miserable fate as Iraq's had it compromised its army-based? revolutionary principle and accepted the demand raised by the imperialists and its followers for "nuclear inspection" and disarmament," the ruling party daily Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary.
No, we would have left you content to eat grass and twigs.
"The DPRK will increase its self-defensive capability and fully demonstrate its might under the uplifted banner of the army-based policy," Rodong Sinmun said.
I knew I'd see "army-based policy sooner rather than later.
A spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry declined immediate comment.
What can you say, after a classic outburst from Rodong Sinmun? I usually just take a pill and lie down...
Earlier on Saturday, South Korea's unification minister sought to calm frayed nerves on the peninsula by assuring a parliamentary committee the United States has no intention to attack North Korea. "Concerns felt by the (South Korean) public and voiced by the media of a potential U.S. attack on North Korea are not based on true facts," another Unification Ministry official quoted Minister Jeong Se-hyun as telling lawmakers.
More like based on delusional rantings from up north, but I guess he couldn't say that.
"There has been no mention by U.S. government officials of an attack against North Korea," Jeong was quoted as saying. Pyongyang insists any nuclear program it has may have would not be purely defensive in face of what it perceives as a U.S. military threat to its very bleak meager existence. The goofy sadistic starving hare-brained impoverished Stalinist state has embarked on a campaign to force Washington to enter direct talks and negotiate a non-aggression pact. Washington prefers a multilateral approach.
"Why, we can't be unilateral about this Kim, think of the trouble we'd get into at the UN!"
Meanwhile, high-ranking South Korean officials sounded out major powers for a peaceful resolution to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. In Washington, South Korea's Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan met Secretary of State Colin Powell and suggested that the United States take the initiative toward North Korea along the lines of the Nixon administration's overtures to communist China in the 1970s. Powell told reporters after his meeting that Yoon had given him a good laugh some ideas to deal with North Korea, but Washington still thought a multilateral forum was the best idea.
Time is on our side, thanks.
Seoul's Defense Minister Cho Young-kil met his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba in Seoul on Saturday and reiterated South Korea's policy of dealing with North Korea through talks. Relations between the two Koreas, locked in a tense standoff since the 1950-53 Korean War, warmed significantly in 2000 when the South's then president, Kim Dae-jung, bought and paid for held a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Subsequent rapprochement efforts slowed to a trickle after President Bush took office the following year signaling a more hard-line approach to North Korea. He later bracketed the isolated Stalinist state together with Iraq and Iran in an "axis of evil," accused of seeking to acquire and spread weapons of mass destruction.
So far he's been right.
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