Right on schedule, it seems that North Korea no longer wants off the Terror List.
Somebody pass U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs C. Hill some antacid.
All levity aside now, this is actually a hard one for the "tea leaf readers" at DeptState. No, it wasn't hard to see something like this coming. But *why?*, *why now?*, and the money question: *who decided to do this?* are all going to be a bit of a challenge to figure out.
Here is Reuters quoting State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. Speaking of S. McCormack, here he is in a lengthy 18.September DeptState press briefing that is full of all matter of 'fun' topics.
The Key Point in that briefing regarding the Six-Party Talks on North Korea was "QUESTION: Any travel plans for Chris Hill or (director of the Korean desk of the U.S. DeptState) Sung Kim? MR. MCCORMACK: None that I’m aware of."
Bets are there won't be any travel plans, either, until there is something to talk about besides the usual North Korean gamesmanship.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
Im thinking that Dear Leader is incapacitated and one or several of his Generals that bristled under the submission or weakness to the Americans, is now in charge and is working to back out of the deal, and doing it by looking as bullying as he can. This weon't end well.
Scott
waitaminute... You can't shift into reverse unless you were going forward to begin with. I'll grant you that North Korea was moving in a direction, but forward wasn't it.
recent news- North Korea has asked for the seal to be removed from the nuclear plant-
North Korea asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog Monday to remove seals and surveillance equipment from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the agency chief said, heightening concerns that the communist nation may be preparing to restart its nuclear program.
"North Korea"
WHAT IS North Korea up to?
"seal removed"
@Susan
re: "WHAT IS...?"
To answer in detail, they are doing things that lead to restarting Plutonium recovery from their stockpile of used fuel rods. That extraction process would take some months, but potentially yield material for several more nuclear devices.
To answer in practical terms, they are kicking the walls of the crib and being bad. It is pretty much what they do as a negotiating ploy when they are not getting what they want.
Post a Comment