North Korea Nuclear Deal?

[jwoodie]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

 

[waltky]

Lil' Kim rattlin' his sword at Obama...

North Korea vows 'baptism of nuclear fire' on U.S.
April 27, 2016 - Pyongyang is ramping up statements of nuclear power ahead of its Seventh Party Congress.

North Korea threatened to put the United States through a "baptism of nuclear fire" if Washington does not suspend its "hostile policy" against Pyongyang. The statement of condemnation was published in Wednesday's issue of the Rodong Sinmun, under the headline, "Will they change policy, or prefer a baptism of nuclear fire"?

Pyongyang's media blamed the United States for "blowing away" a chance for a peace proposal, and the only choice for Washington now is the "method of last resort," South Korean news service Newsis reported. The editorial stated the North had recently offered concessions, although North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Tae Song told reporters in Beijing Tuesday there are no conditions for which nuclear tests would be stopped. "The United States has ignored reality and if they dare attack us a nuclear bolt of lightening would hit the U.S. landmass, leading to catastrophic disaster that would turn the country into powder," North Korea said in a statement.

Pyongyang went on to say the United States "cannot deny the fact we are able to pressure it as a nuclear power," stating there is "scientific confirmation" the North can beat down enemies with its "revolutionary weapons." U.S. policy is to be blamed for this predicament, North Korea stated in the newspaper that analysts have said targets a domestic audience.

North Korea has increased its verbal attacks on the United States and South Korea since the adoption of sweeping sanctions at the United Nations Security Council. The sanctions have made it difficult for North Koreans overseas to remit earnings. In Seoul on Wednesday, South Korean intelligence chief Lee Byung-ho said more North Korean restaurants are closing. A total of 20 state-run restaurants have suspended operations, Newsis reported.

North Korea vows 'baptism of nuclear fire' on U.S.

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U.S. compiling list of North Korea human rights violators
April 27, 2016 - Tom Malinowski says a list is being created so North Korean officials under Kim Jong Un can be held accountable.

A U.S. State Department official said North Koreans linked to human rights abuses will be held responsible in the event that Kim Jong Un's regime collapses. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski made the statement as the State Department is leaning toward releasing a full list of North Korean human rights violators, South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun reported.

The list would include North Korean officials responsible for overseeing political prison camps, executions and other rights abuses. A list of names is being assembled, Malinowski told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. The senior U.S. official said that it's easy to say Kim is a bad person, and that's something everyone knows. But the list the senior diplomat has in mind would hold accountable the people below Kim who are involved in regular human rights abuses – especially in the event of a sudden change on the Korean peninsula, such as the collapse of the North Korean government.

A U.S. sanctions bill on North Korea that passed in February includes a clause that can blacklist rights violators. Secondary sanctions could also follow in the wake of a possible fifth nuclear test. North Korea is sensitive to international criticism of its human rights record, and earlier in April slammed the United States for releasing a human rights report critical of the regime.

The State Department's 2015 report on human rights practices around the world described North Korea as an "authoritarian state" where citizens do "not have the ability to change their government." "The government subjected citizens to rigid controls over many aspects of their lives, including denial of the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, religion, movement and worker rights," the report read. North Korea has called U.S. statements on the country's political prison camps, forced labor and summary executions "outright lies," and has said the United States will be met with "bone-crushing" consequences.

U.S. compiling list of North Korea human rights violators

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China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi
Apr 27 2016 - China will not allow chaos and war to break out on the Korean peninsula, which would be to no one's advantage, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a group of Asian foreign ministers on Thursday.

North Korea's drive to develop a nuclear weapons capability, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, has angered China and raised tension in the region. "As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula. This situation would not benefit anyone," Xi said in a speech to a Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with tests of various missiles that could deliver such a weapon. The isolated state is expected to conduct another nuclear test before a rare congress of its ruling party, beginning on May 6, at which young leader Kim Jong Un is expected to try to cement his leadership.

China is North Korea's sole major ally but it disapproves of its development of nuclear weapons and backed harsh new U.N. sanctions imposed last month. China has long called for the Korean peninsula to be free of nuclear weapons. Nearly 30,000 U.S. troops are based in South Korea and the two Koreas are still technically at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty. Xi also told the meeting China would safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea, while at the same time maintaining its sovereignty and rights there.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, believed to rich in oil and gas deposits. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim parts of the waters, through which about $5 trillion in trade is shipped every year. China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on tiny islands in the disputed waters, including building runways, though it says most of its activity is for civilian purposes. Chinese officials say the United States is pushing militarization and endangering stability with "freedom of navigation" operations by its military ships and aircraft in the South and East China seas.

The United States says it conducts such patrols across the world in an effort to demonstrate that the international community does not accept restrictions set up by some countries in international waters. The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia involves 26 members, including Russia and many countries from Central Asia and the Middle East. The United States and Japan are among eight observers.

China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi

 

[frigidweirdo]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

 

[waltky]

Granny says must be near where dey testin' dem abomic toms...

North Korea keeps secret base for ICBMs, report says
May 17, 2016 - North Korea’s long-range rockets are being stored in a rugged mountain region.

North Korea could be maintaining a base for its intercontinental ballistic missiles in a north-central region of the country. Satellite images from military journal Jane's Defense Weekly showed Pyongyang has an advanced base where the country's KN-08 long-range rockets are kept, South Korean news network Channel A reported Tuesday. The area known as Yongrim in North Korea's Jagang Province is a place more than a thousand meters above sea level surrounded by rugged mountain peaks.

The location is home to a North Korean underground hangar where Pyongyang most likely keeps KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missiles. The weapons could be fired from three different passageways, according to the report. The images also indicated two factories are nearby where road mobile launchers are being manufactured.

The hangar entrance faces north, and on the south side S-75 surface-to-air missiles have been installed. South Korean military officials have continued to capture images of North Korea's KN-08 ICBMs. At about three to four locations along the China-North Korea border, a North Korean brigade affiliated with a strategic military unit has been positioned, the South's officials say.

Yang Uk, a senior fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum, said that the moves could be being made to increase Pyongyang's national security as they are tracked by China and Russia air defense surveillance. Seoul is also developing defense measures. South Korea's navy has begun full-scale assembly operations on the 3,000-ton heavy attack submarine Jangbogo-III, local newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun reported Tuesday. The Jangbogo-III can launch ballistic missiles. The submarine is to be deployed by 2020.

North Korea keeps secret base for ICBMs, report says

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Christian pastor aiding North Koreans killed in 'retaliation,' source says
May 17, 2016 - A North Korean source said state security is trying to dodge blame for the group defection of restaurant workers.

A band of "gangsters" killed a Christian pastor who assisted North Korean defectors in China, according to a source in North Korea. The incident was an act of "retaliation" for the defection of 13 North Korean restaurant workers in China, the source told South Korean news service Daily NK. North Korea has claimed the defectors were "dragged" against their will to the South, and that they were "kidnapped" by South Korean intelligence agents. A South Korean activist group has also said North Korean agents cross into China to track down defectors and their helpers.

The Korean-Chinese pastor Han Chungryeol was the founder of Jangbaek Church in Jilin in 1993. As part of his work, he provided assistance to North Koreans in China. Activists in the South have said Han was murdered on April 30, less than a month after 12 North Korean waitresses and their manager fled a state-run restaurant in Ningbo. According to Daily NK's source, North Korea state security is trying to skirt blame for the group defection, and is recruiting thugs and deploying undercover agents posing as defector's relatives and border traders in order to penetrate the activities of human rights activists and missionaries in the region.

North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau is deploying young agents overseas, the source added. Pyongyang is probably planning to abduct South Korean nationals, particularly those affiliated with the military and the government, as well as human rights activists, so that an exchange could be made for the 13 defectors, the source said. A South Korean Christian minister has gone missing, and according to a South Korean report, the minister, who was also a defector, could have been kidnapped to North Korea.

Christian pastor aiding North Koreans killed in 'retaliation,' source says

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North Koreans assembling clothes for leading U.S brands in China
May 17, 2016 ) -- North Korean laborers are stitching clothes for U.S. labels like Calvin Klein, Burberry and Levi's in China, according to a report.

A source in northeastern China told Radio Free Asia a large number of North Koreans are working for Chinese manufacturers with factories not far from the North Korea border. One of the Chinese firms, Mei Dao Garment Company Limited, hires hundreds of North Koreans, according to the source. Mei Dao began employing North Korean personnel, 54 in total, between January and July 2012. The source also said in April 2015 the Chinese business began collaborating with North Korea's Ryugyong Mokdan Trading Company to build the Dandong Miryong Garment Company.

Another plant located near the Chinese border city of Dandong, the Phoenix Gold Company Limited, employs about 1,200 workers, and 800 of those laborers are from North Korea, the source said. Chinese subcontractors hire North Koreans because they provide low-wage labor. Another source at the China-North Korea border told RFA Chinese manufacturers that receive "a lot of orders" from the United States, Europe and Japan, are hiring North Korean workers in significant numbers. The orders are from popular U.S. and other multinational brands. North Korean workers aren't necessarily concentrated in the apparel industries.

A third source in China said a company in Hunan Province that supplies corporations like Apple and Nokia with smartphone glass includes North Koreans in its workforce, the source said. A South Korean think tank has estimated North Korea deploys at least 50,000 people overseas. Most are involuntary laborers who earn up to $300 million for the Kim Jong Un regime, according to the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights in Seoul. Workers often retain 10 percent or less of their income, after giving the rest to the regime, NKDB has stated.

North Koreans assembling clothes for leading U.S brands in China

 

[BuckToothMoron]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

Lil' Kim rattlin' his sword at Obama...

North Korea vows 'baptism of nuclear fire' on U.S.
April 27, 2016 - Pyongyang is ramping up statements of nuclear power ahead of its Seventh Party Congress.

North Korea threatened to put the United States through a "baptism of nuclear fire" if Washington does not suspend its "hostile policy" against Pyongyang. The statement of condemnation was published in Wednesday's issue of the Rodong Sinmun, under the headline, "Will they change policy, or prefer a baptism of nuclear fire"?

Pyongyang's media blamed the United States for "blowing away" a chance for a peace proposal, and the only choice for Washington now is the "method of last resort," South Korean news service Newsis reported. The editorial stated the North had recently offered concessions, although North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Tae Song told reporters in Beijing Tuesday there are no conditions for which nuclear tests would be stopped. "The United States has ignored reality and if they dare attack us a nuclear bolt of lightening would hit the U.S. landmass, leading to catastrophic disaster that would turn the country into powder," North Korea said in a statement.

Pyongyang went on to say the United States "cannot deny the fact we are able to pressure it as a nuclear power," stating there is "scientific confirmation" the North can beat down enemies with its "revolutionary weapons." U.S. policy is to be blamed for this predicament, North Korea stated in the newspaper that analysts have said targets a domestic audience.

North Korea has increased its verbal attacks on the United States and South Korea since the adoption of sweeping sanctions at the United Nations Security Council. The sanctions have made it difficult for North Koreans overseas to remit earnings. In Seoul on Wednesday, South Korean intelligence chief Lee Byung-ho said more North Korean restaurants are closing. A total of 20 state-run restaurants have suspended operations, Newsis reported.

North Korea vows 'baptism of nuclear fire' on U.S.

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U.S. compiling list of North Korea human rights violators
April 27, 2016 - Tom Malinowski says a list is being created so North Korean officials under Kim Jong Un can be held accountable.

A U.S. State Department official said North Koreans linked to human rights abuses will be held responsible in the event that Kim Jong Un's regime collapses. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski made the statement as the State Department is leaning toward releasing a full list of North Korean human rights violators, South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun reported.

The list would include North Korean officials responsible for overseeing political prison camps, executions and other rights abuses. A list of names is being assembled, Malinowski told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. The senior U.S. official said that it's easy to say Kim is a bad person, and that's something everyone knows. But the list the senior diplomat has in mind would hold accountable the people below Kim who are involved in regular human rights abuses – especially in the event of a sudden change on the Korean peninsula, such as the collapse of the North Korean government.

A U.S. sanctions bill on North Korea that passed in February includes a clause that can blacklist rights violators. Secondary sanctions could also follow in the wake of a possible fifth nuclear test. North Korea is sensitive to international criticism of its human rights record, and earlier in April slammed the United States for releasing a human rights report critical of the regime.

The State Department's 2015 report on human rights practices around the world described North Korea as an "authoritarian state" where citizens do "not have the ability to change their government." "The government subjected citizens to rigid controls over many aspects of their lives, including denial of the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, religion, movement and worker rights," the report read. North Korea has called U.S. statements on the country's political prison camps, forced labor and summary executions "outright lies," and has said the United States will be met with "bone-crushing" consequences.

U.S. compiling list of North Korea human rights violators

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China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi
Apr 27 2016 - China will not allow chaos and war to break out on the Korean peninsula, which would be to no one's advantage, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a group of Asian foreign ministers on Thursday.

North Korea's drive to develop a nuclear weapons capability, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, has angered China and raised tension in the region. "As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula. This situation would not benefit anyone," Xi said in a speech to a Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with tests of various missiles that could deliver such a weapon. The isolated state is expected to conduct another nuclear test before a rare congress of its ruling party, beginning on May 6, at which young leader Kim Jong Un is expected to try to cement his leadership.

China is North Korea's sole major ally but it disapproves of its development of nuclear weapons and backed harsh new U.N. sanctions imposed last month. China has long called for the Korean peninsula to be free of nuclear weapons. Nearly 30,000 U.S. troops are based in South Korea and the two Koreas are still technically at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty. Xi also told the meeting China would safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea, while at the same time maintaining its sovereignty and rights there.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, believed to rich in oil and gas deposits. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim parts of the waters, through which about $5 trillion in trade is shipped every year. China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on tiny islands in the disputed waters, including building runways, though it says most of its activity is for civilian purposes. Chinese officials say the United States is pushing militarization and endangering stability with "freedom of navigation" operations by its military ships and aircraft in the South and East China seas.

The United States says it conducts such patrols across the world in an effort to demonstrate that the international community does not accept restrictions set up by some countries in international waters. The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia involves 26 members, including Russia and many countries from Central Asia and the Middle East. The United States and Japan are among eight observers.

China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi

I agree, China is concerned about their own economy. Tension created by that little Korean egg roll is not what they want.

 

[waltky]

Mebbe he was just bein' evasive `bout bein' evasive...

WH Spokesman Evasive When Asked if Any Senior Official Ever Lied About Iran Nuclear Deal
June 7, 2016 – White House press secretary Josh Earnest twice on Monday did not give a direct, yes or no response to a reporter’s question about whether any senior administration official had ever lied publicly about the Iran nuclear deal.

Each time he chose instead to answer in what he called “the affirmative,” saying the administration had made a “truthful” case about the agreement – an agreement which he also predicted would be “an important part of this president’s legacy.” Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau asked Earnest, “Can you categorically state that no senior administration official in this administration has ever lied publicly about any aspect of the Iran nuclear deal?”

“Let me just state in the affirmative,” he replied, “which is that the administration has made a forceful and fact-based, accurate, truthful case about how the American people and the international community benefit from an international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” Earnest went on to tell Tau it would be a “much more worthy endeavor” to examine the claims of critics of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action who he said had been proven wrong in their criticism. “I think it's worthy of spending some time considering exactly whether or not those individuals were just misinformed or lying,” he said.

Tau tried again: “But you’re unwilling to categorically state that no public officials ever willfully misled on the Iran deal?” “Byron, I can categorically say – ” Earnest began. “I’m going to say it in the affirmative. Unless you want – you want to present some evidence, or just make a claim?” “No, I mean, just there was some confusion over this on the question,” Tau said. Okay. Well, let me say one more time, in the affirmative, declaratively, categorically, the administration made a strong, fact-based, truthful case about the benefits of the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Earnest said.

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Kerry: ‘Successful’ Iran Nuclear Deal a ‘Model’ For How to Deal With North Korea
June 7, 2016 – The “successful” achievement of a nuclear deal with Iran was a “model” for how the international community should deal with North Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said in Beijing Monday.

He was speaking on the same day the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that satellite imagery appears to confirm the Kim Jong-un regime has resumed operations at a previously-disabled facility that reprocesses plutonium. Touting examples of U.S.-China cooperation, Kerry said the two had helped to negotiate the agreement that “resolved the international community’s 10-year-long concern about Iran’s nuclear program, and we together removed a major threat to the stability of the Middle East and to the danger of proliferation.” (The Iran deal was negotiated by the P5+1 group, comprising the U.S., China, Britain, France, Russia and Germany.) Kerry said the U.S. and China need to “stand firmly and strongly together in the same way” in dealing with North Korea.

Noting that the U.N. Security Council had adopted tough sanctions earlier this year – in response to a fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch the following month – Kerry said it was vital to keep applying pressure. “We believe it is imperative to keep the pressure on North Korea in order to halt any and all actions that threaten its neighbors and threaten the peace and security of the region,” he said. “We were able to be successful with Iran. We’ve set the model. We can be successful ultimately with North Korea.” The Obama administration has declared that the deal with Tehran, which began to be implemented last January, “will block all of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon,” and reports that Iran has met its commitments to date.

Critics are more circumspect, and some independent experts caution that the agreement could lay the groundwork for Iran to pursue a nuclear weapons capability once sunset provisions expire, after 10-15 years. Meanwhile in Vienna on Monday the IAEA – whose monitoring in North Korea has been limited to satellite observation since it was expelled in 2009 – said it looks like North Korea’s five-megawatt nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, is again operational. IAEA director-general Yukiya Amano said recent images show a resumption of “activities related to the five-megawatt reactor, expansion of enrichment facilities and activities related to reprocessing.” Experts estimate the reactor, some 60 miles north of Pyongyang, is capable of producing enough plutonium for about one nuclear bomb per year.

It was decommissioned in 2007, in what was a high point of a drawn-out “six-party talks” process: North Korea pledged to disable the Yongbyon reactor, as well as an associated reprocessing plant and nuclear fuel rod fabrication facility, in exchange for economic and diplomatic concessions. But the agreement stalled in 2008, amid disagreements over how to verify Pyongyang’s compliance. No further talks in the six-party formula – involving the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, Japan and North Korea – have been held during President Obama’s tenure. In 2013, weeks after carrying out a nuclear test – its third since 2006 – North Korea announced it would restart the Yongbyon reactor. It claimed last year to have done so, and Amano’s comments Monday indicate that that seems to be true.

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[TheOldSchool]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

^ idiot

 

[guno]

How did North Korea get its hands on the nuclear material? George W. Bush became president in 2001 and was highly skeptical of Clinton’s deal with North Korea. The new administration terminated missile talks with Pyongyang and then spent months trying to develop its own policy.

Then intelligence agencies determined that North Korea was cheating on the agreement by trying to develop nuclear material through another method — highly-enriched uranium. The Bush administration sent an envoy who confronted North Korea — and the regime was said to have belligerently confirmed it.

In response, the Bush administration terminated a supply of fuel oil that was essential to the agreement — and then North Korea quickly kicked out the U.N. inspectors, restarted the nuclear plant and began developing its nuclear weapons, using the material in radioactive fuel rods that previously had been under the close watch of the IAEA. Japan and South Korea, the key partners in the accord, were not happy with the decision to terminate the Agreed Framework, but there was little they could do about it.

After North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in 2006, the Bush administration tried desperately to negotiate a new accord with Pyongyang, including offering new concessions, but those efforts ultimately failed. The nuclear genie by then was out of the bottle. The issue was considered such a loser that the Obama administration has barely bothered to restart disarmament talks.

Questions have since been raised about whether the Bush administration misinterpreted North Korea’s supposed confirmation — and doubts also emerged about the quality of U.S. intelligence that inspired the confrontation. But Bush’s later efforts to negotiate a new accord were hampered by fresh evidence that North Korea actually did have an undisclosed uranium-enrichment program.

Cotton’s misguided history lesson on the North Korean nuclear deal

 

[waltky]

About face for lil' Kim...

North Korea wants to talk denuclearization, U.S. analyst says
July 15, 2016 -- A former U.S. government official who negotiated with North Korea in the Clinton administration says Pyongyang raised the possibility of denuclearization last week – but that the statement may have been ignored in Washington.

Robert Carlin, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, wrote on 38 North, a Johns Hopkins University website dedicated to North Korea issues, that Pyongyang placed the ball in motion to restart talks on denuclearization. "[The] statement made clear what the North Koreans have been hinting at for some time – yes, they were willing to talk about denuclearization," Carlin wrote in the article published on Tuesday. The analyst was referring to a statement issued on July 6 on KCNA that included five proposed requirements that could lead to the termination of its nuclear weapons program. "If the United States and South Korea authorities take the slightest interest in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula our principled requirements must be accepted," the statement on KCNA read.

Granny says make `em get on dey's knees an beg pretty please​

According to Carlin, Pyongyang is transitioning toward defining denuclearization in terms that "potentially brings the discussion back down to earth, reintroducing concepts both Seoul and Washington had previously accepted" in 1992. The North Korean statement issued last week claimed the United States has nuclear weapons in South Korea, which invited a response from Seoul dismissing the claim as an attempt to mislead and undermine national security, South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun reported.

But Carlin said North Korea also intended to define denuclearization as a task for both sides on the peninsula. "For Pyongyang that definition provides a better, more realistic, more salable, and more defensible starting point – that is, if there is to be "denuclearization," it will pertain very specifically to the Korean peninsula," Carlin wrote, adding the term denuclearization is an "accordion" that will end up being "expanded or contracted" during potential negotiations. "The key point now is that someone in Pyongyang has apparently decided that the North's approach over the past several years has not given it the flexibility it needed to deal with the issue, whereas a more realistic concept, based on ground already plowed, might do that," the analyst said.

North Korea wants to talk denuclearization, U.S. analyst says

 

[buckeye45_73]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

 

[buckeye45_73]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

^ idiot

Why, your boys Obama and Kerry, did it With Iran....and Bill Clinton signed a treaty that prevented North Korea from getting nukes....uhhhhhhhh...well not so much.

They just wanna get paid homey......they know this administration is weak and full of shit.

 

[frigidweirdo]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

You're sure huh? That's based on what?

You don't seem to have an understand of the relationship between China and North Korea.

 

[buckeye45_73]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

You're sure huh? That's based on what?

You don't seem to have an understand of the relationship between China and North Korea.

Well it's kinda like Canada and the US, yeah they're free, but we have all the leverage....if we stop trading with Canada or both agree not to defend the other....who gets hurt the most? So while Canada can do what it wants, it usually does what we want them to.....it's just better for them that way.

 

[frigidweirdo]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

You're sure huh? That's based on what?

You don't seem to have an understand of the relationship between China and North Korea.

Well it's kinda like Canada and the US, yeah they're free, but we have all the leverage....if we stop trading with Canada or both agree not to defend the other....who gets hurt the most? So while Canada can do what it wants, it usually does what we want them to.....it's just better for them that way.

As I said, no understanding of the situation at all. You've basically decided it's like something you do understand. It's not.

 

[buckeye45_73]

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

You're sure huh? That's based on what?

You don't seem to have an understand of the relationship between China and North Korea.

Well it's kinda like Canada and the US, yeah they're free, but we have all the leverage....if we stop trading with Canada or both agree not to defend the other....who gets hurt the most? So while Canada can do what it wants, it usually does what we want them to.....it's just better for them that way.

As I said, no understanding of the situation at all. You've basically decided it's like something you do understand. It's not.

Yeah I'm sure if China says something north Korea is gonna say fuck off.....
Wow who is naive now.

 

[Weatherman2020]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

Like the deal Clinton signed that would prevent them from obtaining nukes?

 

[bendog]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

He could offer ballistic nuclear technology too! Reapproachment!

 

[Unkotare]

North Korea announced that it is interested in a nuclear deal, so why not send John Kerry over there with $100 billion or so and sign them up, just like we did with Iran? Sweet!

North Korea is China Puppet and them claiming they want a deal is because they want us to be fooled in pretending they will play nice but once China calls them they will do another rocket test because as I just wrote they're China puppet.

Watch something and when China get upset about the South China Sea you will see North Korea firing one of their rocket tests or doing another underground nuclear test.

NK is not China's puppet, they are China's pain in the ass.

 

[frigidweirdo]

They're not China's puppet. China tolerates them because it doesn't want the US on its border. So North Korea is an essential part of Chinese policy. North Korea knows this and abuses the trust that China places in them, and strains tensions with China quite often. China won't do anything to destabilize North Korea, that's not a puppet.

Yeah I'm sure if China says jump, ole Kim says HOW HIGH.

You're sure huh? That's based on what?

You don't seem to have an understand of the relationship between China and North Korea.

Well it's kinda like Canada and the US, yeah they're free, but we have all the leverage....if we stop trading with Canada or both agree not to defend the other....who gets hurt the most? So while Canada can do what it wants, it usually does what we want them to.....it's just better for them that way.

As I said, no understanding of the situation at all. You've basically decided it's like something you do understand. It's not.

Yeah I'm sure if China says something north Korea is gonna say fuck off.....
Wow who is naive now.

You're sure huh? You don't understand the relationship of China and North Korea. China isn't the master. It's the protector. It's like having a younger brother, but the younger brother then goes and does stuff that annoys the older brother. But the older brother can't show the world that he's against his younger brother.

There's only one factor in this whole thing.

China doesn't want the US on its borders. And it doesn't have that. If North and South Korea were to merge, then the US would on their borders. China won't let this happen. As long as North Korea prevents this from happening and doesn't attack China, then it can do whatever it likes. This whole nuclear thing is annoying China, because it's provoking the US, who might consider attacking if there's a real escalation in nuclear weapons. So China is trying to get North Korea to back down, but knows that it has two choices, either pull out economic interaction to a degree to pull North Korea back, and risk the US taking advantage, or simply grinning and bearing and trying to influence Kim Jong Fat Boy.