The appeasement of North Korea by the Bush administration continues:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that verifying any North Korean nuclear declaration would take time and suggested Washington may drop some sanctions on Pyongyang before this is complete.
Separately, a senior U.S. official said an American team would visit North Korea next week to discuss how to verify the “complete and correct” accounting of its nuclear programs that Pyongyang was due to deliver by Dec. 31. [Reuters, Arshad Mohammed via One Free Korea]
This is outrageous that sanctions are going to be dropped before the North Koreans disarm. I have been saying this since the nuclear talks began that North Korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear program. It is called Strategic Disengagement and the State Department is playing right into Kim Jong-il’s hands. At this rate Jimmy Carter may be able to get a better deal from the North Koreans then what Condoleezza Rice’s State Department is getting from them.
With both Senators Clinton and Obama calling Senator McCain, George Bush III, it seems like this appeasement of North Korea by the Bush administration would be the perfect opportunity for Senator John McCain to differentiate himself from President Bush by leading a Republican charge condemning this deal. He could probably get a few Democrats to even side with him on this issue because of how bad this deal is.
Make sure to read in full One Free Korea’s posting on this appeasement deal he is affectionately calling the "Singapore Surrender".
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3:31 am on April 22nd, 2008 1
In one of the recent articles sited by One Free Korea, Christopher Hill has a quote that really pissed me off. I think it was in Congressional Hearings recently.
He said something very similar to, “Some people like to talk about verification as if there was some door in North Korea you could open behind which sit a group of scantily clad women refining uranium. It isn’t like that.”
He deserves slapped up side the head for that. In fact, I think such a statement could be grounds for removing him from his position due to a drop in confidence such a statement should surely produce.
Because, I can very damn well guarantee you there is door somewhere in North Korea behind which I can find a few nuclear bombs.
I can also guarantee you there are doors in Korea behind which sit material used for enrichment of uranium that we know North Korea has purchased.
I can also guarantee you there are doors in North Korea behind which sits quantities of weapons grade plutonium that exceeds the amount of such material North Korea has claimed it has on hand.
What Hill actually meant by that statement was not that some people of importance in the US are ignorant about what Pyongyang has stored and what verification means.
Yes. He does directly state those people are ignorant concerning North Korea.
But, what is really behind that simplistic attack on the US version of the Sunshine Policy —–
—- is Hill saying, “Look. North Korea is never going to allow adequate verification no matter what we do. Period. It isn’t going to happen. So the boobs who keep whining about verification are simply wasting my time and yours. We have to “do something” about North Korea. We can’t just keep pretending verification is a realistic goal. So, let’s take what we can get and move on. Because we’re never going to be able to move forward if people keep insisting it is possible for the North to come clean. It isn’t. They won’t. Accept reality and let me do my job.”
7:26 am on April 22nd, 2008 2