Comments on: Peace in Our Time! Yongbyon Edition http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: OneFreeKorea » Agreed Framework 2.0: A Day 60 Scorecard http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-35721 OneFreeKorea » Agreed Framework 2.0: A Day 60 Scorecard Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:29:36 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/#comment-35721 [...] Failure.  Yongbyon (GE pictures) is still not shut down or sealed, and no IAEA inspectors have returned to North Korea, and none have been invited.  North Korea added a new U.S. requirement to release its criminal proceeds from a dirty, fetid, corrupt bank in Macau, and we let them.  The Treasury investigation was so incomplete, and the parentage and ownership of those funds so obviously illegitimate, that not even the Bank of China wanted to touch them.  Supposedly, the North Koreans now have their money, but we’ve been stood up again, because we refuse to learn. 2. The DPRK will discuss with other parties a list of all its nuclear programs as described in the Joint Statement, including plutonium extracted from used fuel rods, that would be abandoned pursuant to the Joint Statement.  [...] [...] Failure.  Yongbyon (GE pictures) is still not shut down or sealed, and no IAEA inspectors have returned to North Korea, and none have been invited.  North Korea added a new U.S. requirement to release its criminal proceeds from a dirty, fetid, corrupt bank in Macau, and we let them.  The Treasury investigation was so incomplete, and the parentage and ownership of those funds so obviously illegitimate, that not even the Bank of China wanted to touch them.  Supposedly, the North Koreans now have their money, but we’ve been stood up again, because we refuse to learn. 2. The DPRK will discuss with other parties a list of all its nuclear programs as described in the Joint Statement, including plutonium extracted from used fuel rods, that would be abandoned pursuant to the Joint Statement.  [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Ill-Gotten Gains: Who Still Remembers Resolution 1718? http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-28673 OneFreeKorea » Ill-Gotten Gains: Who Still Remembers Resolution 1718? Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:47:31 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/#comment-28673 [...] According to a slew of reports, the North Koreans were demanding nothing less than the return of all $25 million — criminal proceeds and all. [AP] [Yonhap] [NY Times]. Because the now-forgotten U.N. resolution that required this isn’t being enforced, Kim Jong Il has a pretty good idea of just how little attention he need pay to the U.N., as if that were still in doubt. But don’t worry. Chris Hill thinks he has ironed over that unfortunate misunderstanding, and he’s even going to push the North Koreans very, very hard to disclose the uranium program they built in violation of the Inter-Korean Denuclearization Agreement, the NPT, and the first Agreed Framework, and which they still deny even having despite Agreed Framework 2.0. Place your bets. [...] [...] According to a slew of reports, the North Koreans were demanding nothing less than the return of all $25 million — criminal proceeds and all. [AP] [Yonhap] [NY Times]. Because the now-forgotten U.N. resolution that required this isn’t being enforced, Kim Jong Il has a pretty good idea of just how little attention he need pay to the U.N., as if that were still in doubt. But don’t worry. Chris Hill thinks he has ironed over that unfortunate misunderstanding, and he’s even going to push the North Koreans very, very hard to disclose the uranium program they built in violation of the Inter-Korean Denuclearization Agreement, the NPT, and the first Agreed Framework, and which they still deny even having despite Agreed Framework 2.0. Place your bets. [...]

]]> By: The First Cracks in the Agreed Framework 2.0 at ROK Drop http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-28475 The First Cracks in the Agreed Framework 2.0 at ROK Drop Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:46 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/#comment-28475 [...] What annoys me about the media coverage of this latest North Korean antic is that the unfreezing of money in the Macau bank was not an agreed upon pre-condition for the US to give to North Korea in return for freezing their nuclear reactor.  I recommend everyone read OFK’s excellent run down on this issue.  However, I felt the tone of the article made it sound like the US side is the one not living up to the agreement by not unfreezing the accounts when in fact it is the North Koreans making demands that are not in the original agreement.  [...] [...] What annoys me about the media coverage of this latest North Korean antic is that the unfreezing of money in the Macau bank was not an agreed upon pre-condition for the US to give to North Korea in return for freezing their nuclear reactor.  I recommend everyone read OFK’s excellent run down on this issue.  However, I felt the tone of the article made it sound like the US side is the one not living up to the agreement by not unfreezing the accounts when in fact it is the North Koreans making demands that are not in the original agreement.  [...]

]]> By: Michael Sheehan http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-28334 Michael Sheehan Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:57:53 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/#comment-28334 The current 'situation' reminds me of a friend's neighbor who had a 'mad' dog. My friend had a wife ... and kids ... and a lot of job travel requirements. Not good. Without going into the ugly details, the moral of the story was ... sooner or later ... ya shoot the dog. In looking back ... 'sooner' would have been the preferred 'option'. The current ‘situation’ reminds me of a friend’s neighbor who had a ‘mad’ dog.

My friend had a wife …

and kids …

and a lot of job travel requirements.

Not good.

Without going into the ugly details, the moral of the story was … sooner or later … ya shoot the dog.

In looking back … ‘sooner’ would have been the preferred ‘option’.

]]> By: Richardson http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-28333 Richardson Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:24:25 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/03/15/peace-in-our-time-yongbyon-edition/#comment-28333 You beat me to it... have to get up earlier... hell, not *that* early. You beat me to it… have to get up earlier… hell, not *that* early.

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