Comments on: North Korea Renegs on Nuclear Agreement, Blames US

By: 1st Presidential Debate & North Korea Policy

1st Presidential Debate & North Korea Policy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:13:44 +0000

[...] further show how absurd this is, North Korea rengged on the Agreed Framework 2.0 because they would not allow the verification protocols necessary to confirm they were keeping their end of the bargain. The North Koreans simply took all [...]

By: DunkinDokDo

DunkinDokDo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:52:50 +0000

The North seems to have perfected the art of leading diplomats around by the nose. It’s a fairly shrewd strategy — diplomats want to make agreements, and it’s easy to keep one going for a while with hopes of advancing his own career.

Everybody wants to be the Korea Whisperer.

Really though, we should go back to old-fashioned peacemaking methods. Kim Jong-Il should get married with Chris Hill.

By: Kalani

Kalani — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:14:08 +0000

Are we back to the death watch for Chris Hill? Big promises followed by cautious optimism followed by caveats followed by skepticism followed by “it was all their fault.” Not only is the DPRK routine getting old, but Chris Hill routine is getting old too.

I know Bush wanted to give it one last shot before he left office just in case it succeeded, but he also set up the preconditions to ensure this whole thing would fail. The Hawks are sitting back grinning from ear-to-ear saying “I told you so.”

To hell with it — Just nuke ‘em till they glow!!! Whoops…what am I saying? I still live here in Korea. Maybe I’ll give Chris Hill another shot.

By: knickerbocker

knickerbocker — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:16 +0000

This would be a good time to elect someone who will talk to Kim Jong-il without pre-conditions. What we desperately need is some soaring rhetoric here.

By: Cloying_odor

Cloying_odor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:01:48 +0000

Oh my god. Unbelievable. Who could have predicted this outcome?

SSDD

Same Shit Different Decade