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Pyongyang subject to harsh international criticism after missile tests

Updated: 4:34 a.m. ET July 9, 2006

CANBERRA, Australia - North Korea’s ambassador to Australia warned Sunday that international attempts to halt his nation’s missile tests could lead to war.
In a letter to The Sunday Herald Sun newspaper in the southern city of Melbourne, Ambassador Chon Jae Hong defended last week’s missile launches as “routine military exercises” aimed at increasing the nation’s “capacity for self-defense.”
He said North Korean’s missile program and tests were key to keeping the balance of force in northeast Asia.
“It is a lesson taught by history and a stark reality of international relations, proven by the Iraqi crisis, that the upsetting of the balance of force is bound to create instability and spark even a war,” Chon said.
North Korea “will have no option but to take stronger physical actions of other forms, should any country dare take issue with the exercises and put pressure upon it,” he added.
The tests have rattled the region and beyond. One of the missiles was believed capable of reaching U.S. shores, while the others could easily reach Japan.
North Korea stunned Tokyo in 1998 by firing a missile over the archipelago.
Prime Minister John Howard has condemned the seven missile tests as provocative and endorsed calls for the U.N. Security Council to take action.
U.N. resolution?
Japan has proposed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions against Pyongyang’s missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. The United States, Britain and France support it but the other two veto-empowered members of the council, China and Russia, are opposed.

Diplomatic efforts to broker a breakthrough gathered speed Sunday, when Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso saying Russia may abstain from voting on the resolution, isolating China as the sole country voicing opposition.
“China will be backed into a corner,” Aso said on the TV Asahi morning talk show Sunday Project. “It’s only common sense not to do that.”
Nine of 15 votes on the Security Council are needed to pass the resolution.
Supporters decided at a meeting Friday afternoon not to call for a vote over the weekend after some council members asked for more time to consider the resolution.
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hey guys, it seems Kim Jing Il will declare a war with any countries who try to impose the sanction against them, but what is he is going to do?
attacking US miltary base in south korea or launching some missles to Tokyo?
if Kim declares war with US, how is Bush going to react about this?
be careful, because kim is a mad man.
 
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The Sunday Times July 09, 2006


West mounts 'secret war' to keep nuclear North Korea in check
Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent


A PROGRAMME of covert action against nuclear and missile traffic to North Korea and Iran is to be intensified after last week’s missile tests by the North Korean regime.

Intelligence agencies, navies and air forces from at least 13 nations are quietly co-operating in a “secret war” against Pyongyang and Tehran.

It has so far involved interceptions of North Korean ships at sea, US agents prowling the waterfronts in Taiwan, multinational naval and air surveillance missions out of Singapore, investigators poring over the books of dubious banks in the former Portuguese colony of Macau and a fleet of planes and ships eavesdropping on the “hermit kingdom” in the waters north of Japan.

Few details filter out from western officials about the programme, which has operated since 2003, or about the American financial sanctions that accompany it.

But together they have tightened a noose around Kim Jong-il’s bankrupt, hungry nation.

“Diplomacy alone has not worked, military action is not on the table and so you’ll see a persistent increase in this kind of pressure,” said a senior western official.

In a telling example of the programme’s success, two Bush administration officials indicated last year that it had blocked North Korea from obtaining equipment used to make missile propellant.

The Americans also persuaded China to stop the sale of chemicals for North Korea’s nuclear weapons scientists. And a shipload of “precursor chemicals” for weapons was seized in Taiwan before it could reach a North Korean port.

According to John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations and the man who originally devised the programme, it has made a serious dent in North Korea’s revenues from ballistic missile sales.

But the success of Bolton’s brainchild, the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), whose stated aim is to stop the traffic in weapons of mass destruction, might also push North Korea into extreme reactions.

Britain is a core member of the initiative, which was announced by President George W Bush in Krakow, Poland, on May 31, 2003. British officials have since joined meetings of “operational experts” in Australia, Europe and the US, while the Royal Navy has contributed ships to PSI exercises. The participants include Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Italy, Spain and Singapore, among others.

There has been almost no public debate in the countries committed to military involvement. A report for the US Congress said it had “no international secretariat, no offices in federal agencies established to support it, no database or reports of successes and failures and no established funding”.

To Bolton and senior British officials, those vague qualities make it politically attractive.

In the past 10 months, since the collapse of six-nation talks in Beijing on North Korea’s nuclear weapons, the US and its allies have also tightened the screws on Kim’s clandestine fundraising, which generated some $500m a year for the regime.

Robert Joseph, the US undersecretary for arms control, has disclosed that 11 North Korean “entities” — trading companies or banks — plus six from Iran and one from Syria were singled out for action under an executive order numbered 13382 and signed by Bush.

For the first time, the US Secret Service and the FBI released details of North Korean involvement in forging $100 notes and in selling counterfeit Viagra, cigarettes and amphetamines in collaboration with Chinese gangsters.

The investigators homed in on a North Korean trading company and two banks in Macau. The firm, which had offices next to a casino and a “sauna”, was run by North Koreans with diplomatic passports, who promptly vanished.

The two banks, Seng Heng bank and Banco Delta Asia, denied any wrongdoing. But the Macau authorities stepped in after a run on Banco Delta Asia and froze some $20m in North Korean accounts.

Last week the North Koreans demanded the money as a precondition for talks but the Americans brushed off their protest.

Kim told Hu Jintao, the Chinese president in January that his government was being strangled, diplomats in the Chinese capital said. “He has warned the Chinese leaders his regime could collapse and he knows that is the last thing we want,” said a Chinese source close to the foreign ministry.

The risk being assessed between Washington and Tokyo this weekend is how far Kim can be pushed against the wall before he undertakes something more lethal than last week’s display of force.

The “Dear Leader” has turned North Korea into a military-dominated state to preserve his own inherited role at the apex of a Stalinist personality cult. Although he appears erratic, and North Korea’s rhetoric is extreme, most diplomats who have met him think Kim is highly calculating.

“He is a very tough Korean nationalist and he knows exactly how to play the power game — very hard,” said Professor Shi Yinhong, an expert in Beijing.

But the costly failure of Kim’s intercontinental missile, the Taepodong 2, after just 42 seconds of flight last Wednesday, was a blow to his prestige and to the force of his deterrent. Six other short and medium-range missiles splashed into the Sea of Japan without making any serious military point.

The United States and its allies are now preoccupied by what Kim might do with the trump card in his arsenal — his stockpile of plutonium for nuclear bombs.

“The real danger is that the North Koreans could sell their plutonium to another rogue state — read Iran — or to terrorists,” said a western diplomat who has served in Pyongyang. American officials fear Iran is negotiating to buy plutonium from North Korea in a move that would confound the international effort to stop Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme.

The prospect of such a sale is “the next big thing”, said a western diplomat involved with the issue. The White House commissioned an intelligence study on the risk last December but drew no firm conclusions.

Plutonium was the element used in the atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945. It would give Iran a rapid route to the bomb as an alternative to the conspicuous process of enriching uranium which is the focus of international concern.

American nuclear scientists estimate North Korea is “highly likely” to have about 43kg and perhaps as much as 53kg of the material. Between 7kg and 9kg are needed for a weapon.

Siegfried Hecker, former head of the US Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory, has warned that North Korea’s plutonium would fit into a few suitcases and would be impossible to detect if it were sold.

For the first time since the crisis over its nuclear ambitions began in 1994, North Korea has made enough plutonium to sell a quantity to its ally while keeping sufficient for its own use.

North Korea is known to have sold 1.7 tons of uranium to Libya. It has sold ballistic missiles to Iran since the 1980s. American officials have said Iran is already exchanging missile test data for nuclear technology from Pyongyang. The exchanges probably involve flight monitoring for Scud-type rockets and techniques of uranium centrifuge operation.

Relations deepened between the two surviving regimes in Bush’s “axis of evil” after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s military and scientific links with North Korea have grown rapidly.

Last November western intelligence sources told the German magazine Der Spiegel that a high-ranking Iranian official had travelled to Pyongyang to offer oil and natural gas in exchange for more co-operation on nuclear technology and ballistic missiles. Iran’s foreign ministry denied the report but diplomats in Beijing and Pyongyang believe it was accurate. At the same time evidence emerged through Iranian dissidents in exile that North Korean experts were helping Iran build nuclear-capable missiles in a vast tunnel complex under the Khojir and Bar Jamali mountains near Tehran.

So while one nation, North Korea, boasts of its nuclear weapons and the other, Iran, denies wanting them at all, the world is on edge. If the stakes are high in the nuclear terror game, they are equally high for the balance of power in Asia and thus for global prosperity.

North Korea’s aggressive behaviour and a record of kidnapping Japanese citizens have created new willpower among politicians in Tokyo to strengthen their military forces. To China, Japan’s wartime adversary, that signals a worrying change in the strategic equation. Nationalism in both countries is on the rise. Relations between the two are at their worst for decades.

One scenario is that Japan abandons its pacifist doctrine and becomes a nuclear weapons power. “The Japanese people are very angry and very worried and, right now, they will accept any government plan for the military,” said Tetsuo Maeda, professor of defence studies at Tokyo International University.

The mood favours the ascent of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s hawkish chief cabinet secretary, the man most likely to take over from Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, who steps down in September. “He will be far more hardline on Pyongyang and I’m firmly of the opinion that he intends to make Japan into a nuclear power,” Maeda said.

The government is already committed to installing defensive Pac-3 Patriot missiles in co-operation with the Americans. But radical opinion in Japan has been fortified by Kim’s adventures.

“The vast majority of Japanese agree that we need to be able to carry out first strikes,” said Yoichi Shimada, a professor of international relations at Fukui Prefectural University.

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“I spoke to Mr Abe earlier this week and he shares my opinion that for Japan, the most important step would be for Japan to have an offensive missile capability.”

Such talk causes severe concern to Washington, which has sheltered Japan under the umbrella of its nuclear arsenal since forging a security alliance after the second world war.

Divisions within the Bush administration — which even sympathisers concede have paralysed its nuclear diplomacy towards the North — also served to undermine Japanese confidence in America, as have the well-documented failings of American intelligence.

Dan Goure of the Lexington Institute, a think tank with ties to the Pentagon, says: “There’s no human intelligence in North Korea. Zero. Zippo. It’s like looking at your neighbour’s house with a pair of binoculars — and they’ve got their blinds shut.”

Last week Bush was working the phones to the leaders of China and Russia. But British officials think it unlikely that either will support a Japanese proposal for UN sanctions on the North Koreans.

That leaves the Bush administration with the same unpalatable choices that existed a week, a month or a year ago. The military option, to all practical purposes, does not exist. “An attack is highly unlikely to destroy any existing North Korean nuclear weapons capability,” wrote Phillip Saunders of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, in a paper analysing its risks.

“The biggest problem with military options is preventing North Korean retaliation,” Saunders said. He believes half a million artillery shells an hour would be rained on Seoul in the first day of any conflict from North Korean artillery hidden in caves. The North Koreans could fire 200 mobile rocket launchers and launch up to 600 Scud missiles. American and South Korean casualties, excluding civilians, are projected at between 300,000 and 500,000 in the first 90 days of war.

Like former president Bill Clinton’s team, the Bush administration has therefore realised that a diplomatic answer is the only one available.

But years of inattention, division and mixed messages robbed the US of diplomatic influence. One observer tells of watching the US envoy Christopher Hill sit mutely in an important negotiation because policy arguments in Washington had tied his hands.

Yesterday Hill compromised by offering the North Koreans a private meeting if they came back to nuclear talks hosted by China. But American faith in China’s powers of persuasion may have been misplaced.

“China is the source of the problem, not the source of the solution,” argued Edward Timperlake, a defence official in the Reagan administration and author of Showdown, a new book on the prospect of war with China.

Kim ignored Chinese demands to call off the missile tests and some American officials now think Beijing is simply playing off its client against its superpower rival.

The clearest statement of all came from the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK) itself. The state news agency said America had used “threats and blackmail” to destroy an agreement to end the dispute. “But for the DPRK’s tremendous deterrent for self-defence, the US would have attacked the DPRK more than once as it had listed it as part of an ‘axis of evil’.”

The lesson of Iraq, the North Koreans said, was now known to everyone.

Additional reporting: Sarah Baxter, Washington; Julian Ryall, Tokyo

Thoughts of Kim

I know I’m an object of criticism in the world, but if I am being talked about, I must be doing the right thing

The leader’s greatness is in reality the greatness of our nation

We oppose the reactionary policies of the US government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States

Copyright 2006 Times Newspapers Ltd

wow! Kim is taking a huge risk to get out of the yoke put by US
 
Remember Saddam before the 2nd Gulf War started?
He said that Iraq will never let USA to invade Iraq... But in the end USA captured the capital city of Iraq in 21 days...
Kim can talk like that before a conflict, but If a conflict starts he will try to hide as Saddam did...
These men are the cowards only talk... They have not enough courage to fight for themselves or for their countries!
 
Italian Guy is very correct, we should be concerned about China more than anything else.
 
regardless of some b******t communist ideology, I don't think Kim will care how chinese feel about this. Chinese will not do US any real favor as well ,unless They can get some solid benefits from these North Korean things. since chinese become the one of biggest business man, making a profitable business is their first option.

What Kim really want is to drag America's ass into a game where Kim can play one on one with Bush.
New North Korea Resolution Offered
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By WARREN HOGE and JOSEPH KAHN
Published: July 13, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, July 12 — China and Russia introduced a draft resolution on North Korea in the Security Council on Wednesday and asked the Council’s members to consider it in place of a Japanese-sponsored resolution, to which they both have objected, that would have allowed for military enforcement and sanctions.
In offering the new measure, Wang Guangya, the Chinese ambassador, said he had instructions from his government to veto the Japanese resolution if it were put to a vote.
Japan and its resolution’s co-sponsors, Britain, France and the United States, have been putting off a vote this week at the request of China, which said action by the Council would interfere with a Chinese diplomatic mission now in North Korea.
In Beijing, an American official praised China’s diplomatic efforts and called for a unified response to North Korea’s missile tests, but it was clear that fissures between the main Asian powers had overshadowed any common stance that might put pressure on North Korea.
Christopher R. Hill, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, held talks in Beijing but prepared to return to Washington on Thursday morning without any sign that North Korea was prepared to return to six-nation disarmament talks. He called North Korea’s stance “discouraging.”
The new Chinese-Russian draft resolution covers many of the same demands on North Korea that the Japanese-drafted measure does, but it significantly does so without resorting to Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, which would allow for military enforcement, and without proposing sanctions against North Korea for noncompliance.
China and Russia had opposed those aspects of the original measure, saying they would destabilize the region and be viewed by North Korea as a provocation.
The text of the Chinese-Russian resolution “strongly deplores” last week’s North Korean tests, calls on member states to work to prevent North Korea from receiving or selling missile-related items and “strongly urges” it to return without precondition to the six-nation talks.
Kenzo Oshima, the Japanese ambassador, said his government needed time to judge the new text. “But a quick glance at the text shows there are very serious gaps on very important issues,” he said. He did not specify them.
John R. Bolton, the American ambassador, said the United States still backed the Japanese resolution but welcomed the new measure because it was in the form of a resolution rather than a nonbinding presidential statement that the Chinese and Russians had earlier insisted was sufficient.
He said it “puts us on an apples-to-apples and oranges-to-oranges basis and now we can talk about a resolution, which is the appropriate measure through which the Security Council should act.”
China, which has engaged in intensive talks with North Korea in recent days, said sanctions imposed on North Korea last fall by the United States Treasury Department must be lifted before North Korea would resume discussions about its weapons programs. “We hope the U.S. can take measures to help the six-nation talks resume by compromising on the sanctions,” said Liu Jianchao, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman. “We don’t want to see this impasse drag on forever.”
The Treasury Department in October seized the American assets of eight North Korean companies it accused of helping proliferate weapons and imposed sanctions on Banco Delta Asia of Macao, accused of helping to launder North Korean money.
Mr. Hill, speaking to reporters on Wednesday afternoon, reiterated the Bush administration’s position that financial sanctions would not be eased until North Korea stopped its nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs and ended efforts to counterfeit American currency.
“We have a country that seems to be more interested in missiles than providing electricity or food for its people,” he said. “We are looking for ways to prevent’’ North Korea “from financing these activities, and frankly that’s what we should be doing.”
The six-nation talks reached a preliminary accord calling for North Korean nuclear disarmament last September but have since foundered, with North Korea declining to participate in multilateral discussions while the United States imposes sanctions. Japan, South Korea and Russia are also involved in the talks.
China’s call to ease financial sanctions suggests that it is still occupying the middle ground between the United States and North Korea, or even tilting slightly toward North Korea despite its missile tests.
North Korea defied appeals from China as well as the United States and other major powers when it test-fired the seven missiles last week.
Bush administration officials clearly hoped that the tests, which appeared to come as a surprise to China, would prompt it to take a much tougher approach to North Korea, its Communist ally and neighbor. So far, however, China appears to be sticking to its role as honest broker, hoping to maintain close relations with both parties and pushing them toward direct talks.
Warren Hoge reported from the United Nations for this article, and Joseph Kahn from Beijing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/world/asia/13korea.html


instead of suggesting Us to ease financial sanctions ,chinese should give Kim some solid pressure.
 
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oRTouCH said:
Remember Saddam before the 2nd Gulf War started?
He said that Iraq will never let USA to invade Iraq... But in the end USA captured the capital city of Iraq in 21 days...
Kim can talk like that before a conflict, but If a conflict starts he will try to hide as Saddam did...
These men are the cowards only talk... They have not enough courage to fight for themselves or for their countries!

Expect Norh Korea and Kim Jong Ill have thousands of artillery pieces targeting civilian and military locations all over South Korea. Also, they can hit targets in Japan. These aren't normal artillery rounds. These are chemical and biological warheads. Also, North Korea does have a certain number of ballistic missiles with the same warheads. Lastly, they have nuclear wepaons.

Crazy people backed into a corner have nothing to lose. Look at Hitler, prime example. By 1943, he knew that Germany couldn't win the war. But he didn't care, if Hitler was to lose the war, Germany would be destroyed.

Kim Jong Ill is the type of man.
 
13 July, 2006NORTH KOREA – CHINA - USAChina “got nothing” from Pyongyang on missile crisisThis was the conclusion Christopher Hill came to after two days in Beijing for consultations on the UN response to North Korea’s provocations. The regime of Kim Jong-il has demanded that Seoul supply food aid in return for military protection on offer for the whole peninsula.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Chinese have not registered “any progress” with North Korea and the Beijing delegation in Pyongyang for three days “has obtained nothing so far”. This was the downbeat assessment of Christopher Hill, US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian affairs, regarding attempts by the Chinese authorities to mediate in the UN response to North Korea’s missile launches. Meanwhile, Pyongyang has demanded that South Korea deliver food aid in return for military protection on offer for the whole peninsula.
Hill, currently on a trip to Asian capitals involved in the North Korean missile saga, reached Beijing after visiting Seoul and Tokyo. In the two days he was in Beiing, he met the Foreign Affairs Minister, Li Zhaoxing.
Leaving the country, he said he foresaw a “very strong message” of the international community to North Korea. “I have said all I could about the mission of the Chinese in Pyongyang. There was no progress.” Hill said he was “worried” about the attitude of North Korea, adding that the “Chinese are as baffled as we are.” He said: “China has done so much for that country, and North Korea has taken all that generosity and given nothing back... The Chinese seem a bit frustrated to me”.
Hill’s mission followed a Security Council delay in deciding which resolution – either one by Japan and the US providing for sanctions or a Sino-Russian one that does not – it should adopt to tackle North Korea. The delay was decided on Monday 9 July to allow for Chinese mediation.
In the meantime, the Stalinist regime led by Kim Jong-il has called on Seoul to “provide humanitarian aid promised to the people as soon as possible”, in return for assured “protection” for the entire peninsula. North Korea’s Senior Cabinet adviser, Kwon Ho-ung, said yesterday that the “Songun ideology [which preaches a military-first approach, putting military development above everything else] impoverished us but thus, we can help the South and the South Korean people to protect their security”.
Further, Kwon called for the suspension of joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States and urged “all patriots of the Korean peninsula” to visit “sacred places in the North” to celebrate the liberation from the Japanese colonialist regime on 15 August. Included in these “shrines”, there are the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where still now former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung lies embalmed – although he died 12 years ago – and the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.

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No surprise here, the Chinese failed and the DPRK is attempting to blackmail the South into feeding them.
 
Bulldogg said:
No surprise here, the Chinese failed and the DPRK is attempting to blackmail the South into feeding them.
I had the same take on this after reading the whole article.
 
bulldogg said:
13 July, 2006NORTH KOREA – CHINA - USAChina “got nothing” from Pyongyang on missile crisisThis was the conclusion Christopher Hill came to after two days in Beijing for consultations on the UN response to North Korea’s provocations. The regime of Kim Jong-il has demanded that Seoul supply food aid in return for military protection on offer for the whole peninsula.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Chinese have not registered “any progress” with North Korea and the Beijing delegation in Pyongyang for three days “has obtained nothing so far”. This was the downbeat assessment of Christopher Hill, US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian affairs, regarding attempts by the Chinese authorities to mediate in the UN response to North Korea’s missile launches. Meanwhile, Pyongyang has demanded that South Korea deliver food aid in return for military protection on offer for the whole peninsula.
Hill, currently on a trip to Asian capitals involved in the North Korean missile saga, reached Beijing after visiting Seoul and Tokyo. In the two days he was in Beiing, he met the Foreign Affairs Minister, Li Zhaoxing.
Leaving the country, he said he foresaw a “very strong message” of the international community to North Korea. “I have said all I could about the mission of the Chinese in Pyongyang. There was no progress.” Hill said he was “worried” about the attitude of North Korea, adding that the “Chinese are as baffled as we are.” He said: “China has done so much for that country, and North Korea has taken all that generosity and given nothing back... The Chinese seem a bit frustrated to me”.
Hill’s mission followed a Security Council delay in deciding which resolution – either one by Japan and the US providing for sanctions or a Sino-Russian one that does not – it should adopt to tackle North Korea. The delay was decided on Monday 9 July to allow for Chinese mediation.
In the meantime, the Stalinist regime led by Kim Jong-il has called on Seoul to “provide humanitarian aid promised to the people as soon as possible”, in return for assured “protection” for the entire peninsula. North Korea’s Senior Cabinet adviser, Kwon Ho-ung, said yesterday that the “Songun ideology [which preaches a military-first approach, putting military development above everything else] impoverished us but thus, we can help the South and the South Korean people to protect their security”.
Further, Kwon called for the suspension of joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States and urged “all patriots of the Korean peninsula” to visit “sacred places in the North” to celebrate the liberation from the Japanese colonialist regime on 15 August. Included in these “shrines”, there are the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where still now former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung lies embalmed – although he died 12 years ago – and the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.

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No surprise here, the Chinese failed and the DPRK is attempting to blackmail the South into feeding them.

just let Kim aka "human trash" eat dust.
 
I agree China is the problem, i say take out N.Korea now with a Tactical Passive Nuclear strike or pay threw the nose later.
 
MIRV FAN said:
I agree China is the problem, i say take out N.Korea now with a Tactical Passive Nuclear strike or pay threw the nose later.


Are you insane? You really want to use nuclearweapons with no actuall reasons? I really hope you americans do that, and probally those koreans use one of them own, on one of your cities for excample New York.
It seems that you guys really want to start third world war.
 
Security Council Rebukes N. Korea

Nations Agree To Demand End Of Missile Program


By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 16, 2006; Page A13
UNITED NATIONS, July 15 -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to approve a resolution demanding that North Korea cease its ballistic missile program and requiring states to help prevent Pyongyang's import or export of ballistic missiles. The 15 to 0 vote ended an 11-day diplomatic deadlock that pitted the United States, Japan and Europe against Russia and China.
The vote represented the strongest international rebuke of North Korea since 1993, when the council adopted a resolution urging North Korea to reverse a decision to withdraw from the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
,'UNITED NATIONS, July 15 -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to approve a resolution demanding that North Korea cease its ballistic missile program and requiring states to help prevent Pyongyang\'s import or export of ballistic missiles. The 15 to 0 vote ended an
The accord, Resolution 1695, came after President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who are attending the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, yielded to Chinese and Russian pressure to drop an explicit reference to a provision in the Charter of the United Nations that has traditionally been cited to impose sanctions and authorize military force. The accord also followed a failed Chinese diplomatic initiative to persuade Pyongyang to halt its program.
The Bush administration hailed the council's decision to condemn Pyongyang's July 4 launch of seven missiles, including the unsuccessful launch of the long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
U.S., Japanese and European officials asserted that the unanimous vote sends an unambiguous message to North Korea that it must stop developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, or face more isolation and punishment.
Council diplomats said it would also strengthen the United States and its allies in interdicting missile shipments in international waters. In 2002, the White House was compelled to order the release of a seized vessel in the Arabian Sea that was transporting 15 Scud missiles from North Korea to Yemen, because there was no provision under international law prohibiting it.
John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned after the vote that the United States will press for stronger Security Council action if Pyongyang fails to abide by the council's demands.
"We look forward to North Korea's full, unconditional and immediate compliance with this Security Council resolution," he said. "We hope that North Korea makes the strategic decision that the pursuit of WMD programs and threatening acts like these missile launches make it less, not more, secure. We need to be prepared, though, that North Korea might choose a different path."
It remained unclear whether Saturday's vote would bring an end to missile tests by North Korea, which has previously ignored Security Council demands to stop its nuclear weapons program and submit to U.N. inspections.
North Korea's ambassador, Pak Gil Yon, rejected the council's decision as an "unjustifiable and gangsterlike" abuse of power. He denied that Pyongyang had violated any international laws or agreements by launching missiles.
North Korea "resolutely condemns the attempt of some countries to misuse the Security Council for the despicable political aim to isolate and put pressure on the DPRK, and totally rejects the resolution," he said using the abbreviation for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"The latest successful missile launches were part of the routine military exercises staged by the Korean people's army to increase their military capacity for self-defense," he added.
The resolution demanded that North Korea suspend ballistic missile activities and abide by a 1999 moratorium on missile tests. It urged the government to return to six-nation talks aimed at eliminating Pyongyang's nuclear weapons. And it expressed "grave concern" at the launches, given that they "could be used as a means to deliver nuclear, chemical or biological payloads."
The resolution negotiations nearly collapsed this week after China threatened to veto any resolution invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, a mandatory provision that has been enforced through economic sanctions or military force.
The United States and Japan overcame Chinese opposition by agreeing to include language offered by France and Britain that only implicitly referred to Chapter 7.


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my favor part is that N Korean said "unjustifiable and gangsterlike abuse of power".
what was this moron talking about? is it justifiable or less gangsterlike that Kim kept bargaining with everybody by threating to aggravate situation and launching some missles. if Kim insists to test his baby toy, his mom will choose not to cover his ass.
 
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