For the Thousandth Time, Secretary Rice ….

Ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad eternitum, ad apocalyptum, North Korea will never negotiate away its nuclear weapons, no matter what it promises our gullible diplomats in treaties or agreed frameworks:

In an apparent message to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama who will take office next week, North Korea said Saturday it may not give up its nuclear weapons even if Washington normalizes relations with it.

“Normalization of diplomatic relations and the nuclear issue are entirely different issues,” a spokesman for the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement, declaring that Pyongyang will keep its nuclear capability until it feels safe from what it called the ever-present U.S. nuclear threat. [Yonhap]

I would just like to register my grave disappointment that the rest of the world has not yet fallen in love with us.

The U.S. treats the DPRK as an enemy state with which it can never co-exist, displeased with the independent and popular policies pursued by it. A particular mention should be made of the fact that the U.S. warlike forces have worked foolishly to defile and destroy the socialist system in the DPRK for the mere reason that it does not follow their intention and political mode. In consequence, the DPRK-U.S. hostile relations have grown tenser as the days go by and the situation on the peninsula is going from bad to worse. [KCNA ]

Change!