Monday, February 12, 2007

Don't trust Kim Jong Il !!!!

We should NOT trust N. Korea to stand by any provisions of the current Six-party Talks ! They are not trustworthy in any way as proven by their recent actions , which I think were just build-ups to the concessions that might be made soon if the talks continue as they have lately .
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=17237 <--Read this from ISN -International Relations and Security Network .

"Six-Party Talks: A bitter pill to swallow
The possible deal between the
US and North Korea, discussed last month in Berlin by Assistant Secretary of
State Christopher Hill and his North Korean counterpart, Vice Foreign Minister
Kim Gye-gwan, is expected to be ratified at Six-Party Talks later this week in
Beijing. If the North freezes but does not dismantle its nuclear program, the
threat of another nuclear crisis will persist; to achieve lasting success, all
parties to the talks must insist on the irreversible denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula.

In the first phase of the deal, North Korea allegedly will cease operations of its five-megawatt reactor and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor Yongbyon in return for a partial release of North Korean funds from Banco Delta Asia (that have been frozen for over a year), removal from the US terrorism list, and a renewed supply of at least 500,000 tons of oil. This would halt North Korea's ability to produce more plutonium and expand its nuclear weapons arsenal. In return, the North's primary "rewards" would be partial relief from international economic isolation and gains in stature that derive from de facto being the world's eighth nuclear weapons state.
A second phase would address North Korea's existing nuclear stockpiles in the context of added economic benefits, steps by the US and Japan toward normalization, and the establishment of a permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The Bush administration's success requires what most critics believe is impossible: the rollback of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The current deal in its initial stage would not achieve that objective. Instead, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula would require additional actions by North Korea, but financial pressure on the North would be considerably eased, leaving the administration to rely on questionable North Korean assurances that it is committed to the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization.
In many respects, this new deal appears to conform with the North Korean "freeze-for-reward" proposal tabled at the third round of Six-Party Talks in June 2004. This proposal envisaged a limited freeze of North Korea's nuclear program in return for energy supplies and the lifting of US economic sanctions on the DPRK. A statement by the DPRK foreign ministry spokesman advocated a "freeze" as the first step toward dismantlement and characterized the size of the "reward" as the factor that would determine the ultimate timing of North Korea's nuclear dismantlement. "

You see that N. Korea has expanded the situation by claiming nuclear achievements to the point that the world cannot afford to ignore them . This makes it easier for them to ask for and to get relief from the money freeze imposed on them , and put a dent in the isolation they have brought upon themselves in the last few years . None of this will help keep the Korean peninsula nuclear free , since few beleive they will honor any new agreements since they have honored few of them in the past .

North Korea has gotten a taste of power and has learned from Iran how to make certain parts of the UN wet their pants in a rush to cater to them .

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