Comments on: N. Korea gets a U.S. green light to sell arms, and six months after its unanimous passage, UNSCR 1718 is a dead letter http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: OneFreeKorea » North Korea Faces the End of the South Korean Gravy Train http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-55726 OneFreeKorea » North Korea Faces the End of the South Korean Gravy Train Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:54:07 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-55726 [...] “Despicable guy” is another matter entirely.  I mean, ”guy?”  Yes, they really said it.  Maybe with those U.N. sanctions and all, it’s hard to get a thesaurus in Pyongyang these days, though they can still manage to trade in weaponry, launder money, and use official state radio to threaten the neighbors with war: [I]f such human scum and warmonger as Ri is allowed to win the elections . . . [...] [...] “Despicable guy” is another matter entirely.  I mean, ”guy?”  Yes, they really said it.  Maybe with those U.N. sanctions and all, it’s hard to get a thesaurus in Pyongyang these days, though they can still manage to trade in weaponry, launder money, and use official state radio to threaten the neighbors with war: [I]f such human scum and warmonger as Ri is allowed to win the elections . . . [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Who Cares About Politicizing Intelligence Now? http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-54873 OneFreeKorea » Who Cares About Politicizing Intelligence Now? Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:11:47 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-54873 [...] The desperation is understandable if you exclude the grave realities and think only of what an embarrassment it could be for Mr. Sigal, Selig Harrison, David Albright, and their strange new bedfellows at State.  If true, this would be a flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718.  You will answer by telling me that nothing the U.N. says is worth a warm pitcher of spit.  Point taken.  Ditto the NPT.   [...] [...] The desperation is understandable if you exclude the grave realities and think only of what an embarrassment it could be for Mr. Sigal, Selig Harrison, David Albright, and their strange new bedfellows at State.  If true, this would be a flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718.  You will answer by telling me that nothing the U.N. says is worth a warm pitcher of spit.  Point taken.  Ditto the NPT.   [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » We must be smoking what they’re growing http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-54415 OneFreeKorea » We must be smoking what they’re growing Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:24:41 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-54415 [...] To say that North Korea is not producing and pushing drugs when all of the evidence we have suggests that it is is quite simply a lie — a dirty, expedient, political lie that only shows Pyongyang that we will embrace its lies as our own.  It rewards crime and mendacity, and thus invites more of it.  Does this bode well for an honest process of disarmament?  Or, for that matter, our national drug policy?  The Administration is simply playing politics with the inconvenient fact of North Korea’s dope dealing, the same way it played politics with its money laundering, the same way it played politics with its illegal arms dealing, the same way it wants to play politics with the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  Each case demonstrates a new low in disregard for law and truth for the sake of a dubious objective.  There are even signs we’re willing to ignore just the latest exposure of North Korea’s proliferation.  So just how thorough does anyone suppose our inspection and verification regime will be?  [...] [...] To say that North Korea is not producing and pushing drugs when all of the evidence we have suggests that it is is quite simply a lie — a dirty, expedient, political lie that only shows Pyongyang that we will embrace its lies as our own.  It rewards crime and mendacity, and thus invites more of it.  Does this bode well for an honest process of disarmament?  Or, for that matter, our national drug policy?  The Administration is simply playing politics with the inconvenient fact of North Korea’s dope dealing, the same way it played politics with its money laundering, the same way it played politics with its illegal arms dealing, the same way it wants to play politics with the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  Each case demonstrates a new low in disregard for law and truth for the sake of a dubious objective.  There are even signs we’re willing to ignore just the latest exposure of North Korea’s proliferation.  So just how thorough does anyone suppose our inspection and verification regime will be?  [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Agreed Framework 2.0: A Day 60 Scorecard http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-35727 OneFreeKorea » Agreed Framework 2.0: A Day 60 Scorecard Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:07:55 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-35727 [...] In another blow to 1718, we green-lighted North Korean weapons sales to Ethiopia, thus reestablishing Kim Jong Il’s bona fides as an international arms dealer. [...] [...] In another blow to 1718, we green-lighted North Korean weapons sales to Ethiopia, thus reestablishing Kim Jong Il’s bona fides as an international arms dealer. [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Law Enforcement Will Be Compromised http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-35572 OneFreeKorea » Law Enforcement Will Be Compromised Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:29:15 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-35572 [...] OK, we probably compromise law enforcement all the time.  Cops give criminals breaks in exchange for information and testimony.  As a prosecutor, I did; as a defense lawyer, I made those arrangements, too.  And I suppose a degree of compromise for the sake of the greater national security good is inevitable, and often justifiable.  Each deal has to be judged on its own merits.  You may not approve of the recent return of $25 million to North Korea, much of it in criminal proceeds, and all of it in violation of a U.N. resolution.  Although the sum itself is modest, I think the diplomatic cost will prove to be higher than it’s worth.  But what if the sum weren’t so modest? [...] [...] OK, we probably compromise law enforcement all the time.  Cops give criminals breaks in exchange for information and testimony.  As a prosecutor, I did; as a defense lawyer, I made those arrangements, too.  And I suppose a degree of compromise for the sake of the greater national security good is inevitable, and often justifiable.  Each deal has to be judged on its own merits.  You may not approve of the recent return of $25 million to North Korea, much of it in criminal proceeds, and all of it in violation of a U.N. resolution.  Although the sum itself is modest, I think the diplomatic cost will prove to be higher than it’s worth.  But what if the sum weren’t so modest? [...]

]]> By: snow http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-35488 snow Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:31:48 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-35488 Disgusting. Bush has handed the keys over to leftist appeasers and other assorted surrender-nicks. I certainly hope things turn out better than they appear to be heading, but I'm getting less and less hopeful. Disgusting. Bush has handed the keys over to leftist appeasers and other assorted surrender-nicks. I certainly hope things turn out better than they appear to be heading, but I’m getting less and less hopeful.

]]> By: usinkorea http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-35320 usinkorea Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:31:30 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/08/n-korea-gets-a-us-green-light-to-sell-arms-and-six-months-after-its-unanimous-passage-unscr-1718-is-a-dead-letter/#comment-35320 You left out getting a hand delivery of $400,000 from SK... <blockquote>A spokesman for the State Department declined to comment on the specifics of the arms shipment, but said the United States was “deeply committed to upholding and enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions,” the newspaper reported….</blockquote> I went after the UN partly in the latest NKHR video for You Tube. I'll be looking for images from the US State Department next. My choice of footage of Kim Jong Il with Madaline (sp?) Albright was actually at least in small part a finger pointing toward US forign policy, but not clear enough. The above quote highlights what I think the State Department-type think is too much about --- which is what Kim Dae Jung's Sunshine Policy quickly became ---- all about ear candy words that mask everything. You left out getting a hand delivery of $400,000 from SK…

A spokesman for the State Department declined to comment on the specifics of the arms shipment, but said the United States was “deeply committed to upholding and enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions,” the newspaper reported….

I went after the UN partly in the latest NKHR video for You Tube. I’ll be looking for images from the US State Department next.

My choice of footage of Kim Jong Il with Madaline (sp?) Albright was actually at least in small part a finger pointing toward US forign policy, but not clear enough.

The above quote highlights what I think the State Department-type think is too much about — which is what Kim Dae Jung’s Sunshine Policy quickly became —- all about ear candy words that mask everything.

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