Great Moments in Diplomacy: N. Korea Wants Japan Kicked Out of Six-Party Talks
Something tells me that we haven’t reached a fundamental change in North Korea’s negotiating attitude.
North Korea said Saturday it wants Japan out of six-party disarmament talks, calling officials in Tokyo “political imbeciles” for saying they will not accept Pyongyang as a nuclear power.
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A statement from North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said “there is no need for Japan to participate in (the talks) as a local delegate because it is no more than a state of the U.S. and it is enough for Tokyo just to be informed of the results of the talks by Washington.”
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“But it is only Japan that expressed its wicked intention,” the ministry said, referring to comments by Tokyo that it will not accept a nuclear North Korea. “The Japanese authorities have thus clearly proved themselves that they are political imbeciles,” it added. The statement was carried on KCNA.
I suppose this was for domestic and South Korean consumption, but is there any other purpose for braying out this non-starter of an idea?
I hope they don’t think name calling will cause the Japanese to ease up on the sanctions…
It gets better when Ban through the UN tells Japan and the US to prepare to normalize relations with NK (ie they’re nuke program is too expensive for us to fund alone and we need your help in your own destruction.)
It never fails to amaze me how ‘in your face’ the idiots from Pyongyang can get with their gratuitous commentary.
And then they have the unmitigated audacity to complain that, ala Rodney Dangerfield, … ‘they don’t get no respect.’
Goodness gracious …. send in the clowns!