What a week. US Intel says that North Korea is prepping for another nuke blast. Guess desperate times call for desperate measures? Of course Secretary Rice (along with others) are still begging for North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.
I wish I had a direct line to someone in the State Department. I would ask them “what exactly do you hope to accomplish in the six-party talks?” It doesn’t make any sense to me. North Korea does whatever it wants and habitually lies. What assurance can you get from a liar? What agreement can you make that won’t be broken?
The most bizarre news lately is the reported
apology for the Oct 9th nuke test by Kim Jong Il.
The Chosun Ilbo daily quoted a Chinese diplomatic source as saying Kim made the apology and the reiteration of his government’s known position in a meeting Thursday morning with State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who visited Pyongyang as a special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
I’m sure most Liberals believe he is sincere. I wonder if Secretary Rice thinks he’s sincere? Yeah, I’m sure he’s real sorry. There is an off-chance that the Chinese turned up the heat and Kim Jong got nervous, but it’s most likely just another slick move to allow China to thwart any escalation in sanctions (after all he said he was “sorry”).
If another nuke test happens, we’ll know for sure it was just a rhetorical bluff.
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