http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-48643 NK Reactor Shutdown Needs More Six Way Talks at ROK Drop Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:56:37 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-48643 [...] What is so interesting about this is that there is already a date set for the reactor shutdown that was agreed upon in the February 13th agreement between the US and North Korea.  In the deal North Korea agreed to shutdown their reactor 60 days from signing the deal.  April 13th came and passed with no signs of North Korea shutting down their reactor without receiving first $25 million dollars in money frozen by the US Treasury Department in a Macau bank due to the money being obtained through counterfeiting and money laundering.  The return of the money was never in the original agreement and was something North Korea added after signing the February 13th deal.  [...] [...] What is so interesting about this is that there is already a date set for the reactor shutdown that was agreed upon in the February 13th agreement between the US and North Korea.  In the deal North Korea agreed to shutdown their reactor 60 days from signing the deal.  April 13th came and passed with no signs of North Korea shutting down their reactor without receiving first $25 million dollars in money frozen by the US Treasury Department in a Macau bank due to the money being obtained through counterfeiting and money laundering.  The return of the money was never in the original agreement and was something North Korea added after signing the February 13th deal.  [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-48151 OneFreeKorea » Vanishing Goalposts and a Fool’s Errand Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:19:46 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-48151 [...] Having sent Chris Hill on that fool’s errand, the Bush Administration wants us to join it in celebrating the possibility that North Korea just might finally do one of the things it was supposed to have done two months ago.  Apparently, getting even that out of Kim Jong Il meant we had to bring more goodies, including a direct meeting with Condi Rice, promises to fully normalize relations, and most incomprehensibly, a centrifuge.  No, I am not kidding: According to a report, the U.S. envoy suggested to North Korea that the U.S. could increase the pace of normalization of U.S.-North Korea relations and exempt North Korea from its list of terrorist sponsoring countries if it actively participates in denuclearization and dispels suspicions of highly enriched uranium (HEU) production.  [...] [...] Having sent Chris Hill on that fool’s errand, the Bush Administration wants us to join it in celebrating the possibility that North Korea just might finally do one of the things it was supposed to have done two months ago.  Apparently, getting even that out of Kim Jong Il meant we had to bring more goodies, including a direct meeting with Condi Rice, promises to fully normalize relations, and most incomprehensibly, a centrifuge.  No, I am not kidding: According to a report, the U.S. envoy suggested to North Korea that the U.S. could increase the pace of normalization of U.S.-North Korea relations and exempt North Korea from its list of terrorist sponsoring countries if it actively participates in denuclearization and dispels suspicions of highly enriched uranium (HEU) production.  [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-47341 OneFreeKorea » Dude, Where’s My Spine? Agreed Framework 2.0 at Four Months Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:18:08 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-47341 [...] The shutdown of one decrepit reactor and the invitation of a few U.N. inspectors were a part of the agreement, but those things did not happen by April 13th, a deadline that came and went two months ago.  Here is the 60-day scorecard for North Korea’s compliance, if you can’t already guess what it might show.  As of today, 60 days later, none of it has changed.  [...] [...] The shutdown of one decrepit reactor and the invitation of a few U.N. inspectors were a part of the agreement, but those things did not happen by April 13th, a deadline that came and went two months ago.  Here is the 60-day scorecard for North Korea’s compliance, if you can’t already guess what it might show.  As of today, 60 days later, none of it has changed.  [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-45294 The Marmot’s Hole » Bush "screwed up" in acting like a pansy to KJI Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:06:50 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-45294 [...] It is looking like the Bush administration and the boys and girls at State have lost all discipline and are desperately seeking out any kind of deal that would keep the region quite for a while.  Of course that just means that the next administration will have to deal with the mess when the facade falls off.  Yep, it’s Agreed Framework 2.0 (and unlike Bruce Cummings, I don’t mean that in a good way). [...] [...] It is looking like the Bush administration and the boys and girls at State have lost all discipline and are desperately seeking out any kind of deal that would keep the region quite for a while.  Of course that just means that the next administration will have to deal with the mess when the facade falls off.  Yep, it’s Agreed Framework 2.0 (and unlike Bruce Cummings, I don’t mean that in a good way). [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-45295 The Marmot’s Hole » Bush "screwed up" in acting like a pansy to KJI Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:06:50 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-45295 [...] It is looking like the Bush administration and the boys and girls at State have lost all discipline and are desperately seeking out any kind of deal that would keep the region quite for a while.  Of course that just means that the next administration will have to deal with the mess when the facade falls off.  Yep, it’s Agreed Framework 2.0 (and unlike Bruce Cummings, I don’t mean that in a good way). [...] [...] It is looking like the Bush administration and the boys and girls at State have lost all discipline and are desperately seeking out any kind of deal that would keep the region quite for a while.  Of course that just means that the next administration will have to deal with the mess when the facade falls off.  Yep, it’s Agreed Framework 2.0 (and unlike Bruce Cummings, I don’t mean that in a good way). [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-43049 OneFreeKorea » A Denuclearization Agreement, But Without the ‘Denuclearization’ Part Sun, 06 May 2007 01:46:21 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-43049 [...] It’s Day 21 since Peace in Our Time Day, and here’s the latest “peace in our time” update: Yonbyong is running; no IAEA inspectors have gone to North Korea and none have been invited; there have been no substantive six-party sessions since March; North Korea denies having the uranium program it previously admitted; North Korea may or may not be running away with the ransom in dirty money that held this deal up, even though it wasn’t part of the deal; and North Korea refuses to discuss its abductions of Japanese citizens. But Japan is standing firm, and America may actually be yielding to Japan’s insistence: The United States will not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism until progress is made regarding the North’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens decades ago, a White House official said Thursday. [...] [...] It’s Day 21 since Peace in Our Time Day, and here’s the latest “peace in our time” update: Yonbyong is running; no IAEA inspectors have gone to North Korea and none have been invited; there have been no substantive six-party sessions since March; North Korea denies having the uranium program it previously admitted; North Korea may or may not be running away with the ransom in dirty money that held this deal up, even though it wasn’t part of the deal; and North Korea refuses to discuss its abductions of Japanese citizens. But Japan is standing firm, and America may actually be yielding to Japan’s insistence: The United States will not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism until progress is made regarding the North’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens decades ago, a White House official said Thursday. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-42896 OneFreeKorea » Anju Links for 4 May 2007: Foot-and-Mouth Strikes North Korean Cattle and American Politicians Fri, 04 May 2007 18:23:12 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-42896 [...] 2. New, Improved, and Completely Failed! It has now been 20 days since North Korea violated all of the denuclearization commitments to which it agreed last February, and it’s still fair to blame “Kim Jong” Bill Richardson, the guy who spuriously claimed credit for an awful deal he actually had next to nothing to do with. The latest Christian Science Monitor op-ed on North Korea must have been written by someone who has been in monastic seclusion for the last month; you can’t connect its grudging praise of Bush’s “new and improved” North Korea policy to reality until you get to the only part you really need to read. It’s buried in the middle of a long, dull tract of no real substance. (In the interests of full disclosure, it needs to be said that early in his career, Richardson was on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while this writer was chief of that staff.) [...] [...] 2. New, Improved, and Completely Failed! It has now been 20 days since North Korea violated all of the denuclearization commitments to which it agreed last February, and it’s still fair to blame “Kim Jong” Bill Richardson, the guy who spuriously claimed credit for an awful deal he actually had next to nothing to do with. The latest Christian Science Monitor op-ed on North Korea must have been written by someone who has been in monastic seclusion for the last month; you can’t connect its grudging praise of Bush’s “new and improved” North Korea policy to reality until you get to the only part you really need to read. It’s buried in the middle of a long, dull tract of no real substance. (In the interests of full disclosure, it needs to be said that early in his career, Richardson was on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while this writer was chief of that staff.) [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-42715 OneFreeKorea » Anju Links for 2 May 2007: North Korea Denies Abducting Any S. Koreans, May Day in Kaesong, and North Koreans’ Growing Meth Problem Wed, 02 May 2007 11:48:45 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-42715 [...] *  It has now been 19 days since North Korea violated all of the denuclearization commitments to which it agreed last February.  I blame Bill Richardson, who obviously must have said something tactless and belligerent while being led around the deck of the U.S.S. Pueblo.  It’s time for us to get serious about diplomacy and offer some carrots.  How many of our soldiers’ lives is Catalina Island really worth?  How many times must the canonballs fly, Bill? [...] [...] *  It has now been 19 days since North Korea violated all of the denuclearization commitments to which it agreed last February.  I blame Bill Richardson, who obviously must have said something tactless and belligerent while being led around the deck of the U.S.S. Pueblo.  It’s time for us to get serious about diplomacy and offer some carrots.  How many of our soldiers’ lives is Catalina Island really worth?  How many times must the canonballs fly, Bill? [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-41639 OneFreeKorea » North Korea Freedom Week 2007: Bringing Attention to an Unreported Genocide Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:26:29 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-41639 [...] No, this could be sadder: the State Department seems inclined to remove North Korea from the terror list after all, claiming that they’re unaware of recent North Korean involvement in terrorism, and that bygones are bygones. It’s unimaginable that even State would manipulate something as close to the core of our national security interests as state sponsorship of terrorism, especially when you consider the basis for that political motivation: an agreement whose every term North Korea has violated. Unlike a North Korean decision to let in a few inspectors or suspend operations at a decrepit reactor, a terror-free certification would probably be extremely difficult for us to reverse. [...] [...] No, this could be sadder: the State Department seems inclined to remove North Korea from the terror list after all, claiming that they’re unaware of recent North Korean involvement in terrorism, and that bygones are bygones. It’s unimaginable that even State would manipulate something as close to the core of our national security interests as state sponsorship of terrorism, especially when you consider the basis for that political motivation: an agreement whose every term North Korea has violated. Unlike a North Korean decision to let in a few inspectors or suspend operations at a decrepit reactor, a terror-free certification would probably be extremely difficult for us to reverse. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/comment-page-1/#comment-41167 OneFreeKorea » North Korea Freedom Week 2007: Bringing Attention to an Unreported Genocide Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:34:47 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/14/agreed-framework-20-a-day-60-scorecard/#comment-41167 [...] No, this could be sadder: the State Department seems inclined to remove North Korea from the terror list after all, claiming that they’re unaware of recent North Korean involvement in terrorism, and that bygones are bygones.  It’s unimaginable that even State would manipulate something as close to the core of our national security interests as state sponsorship of terrorism, especially when you consider the basis for that political motivation:  an agreement whose every term North Korea has violated.  Unlike a North Korean decision to let in a few inspectors or suspend operations at a decrepit reactor, a terror-free certification would probably be extremely difficult for us to reverse. [...] [...] No, this could be sadder: the State Department seems inclined to remove North Korea from the terror list after all, claiming that they’re unaware of recent North Korean involvement in terrorism, and that bygones are bygones.  It’s unimaginable that even State would manipulate something as close to the core of our national security interests as state sponsorship of terrorism, especially when you consider the basis for that political motivation:  an agreement whose every term North Korea has violated.  Unlike a North Korean decision to let in a few inspectors or suspend operations at a decrepit reactor, a terror-free certification would probably be extremely difficult for us to reverse. [...]

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