Rigid North Korean stance stalls nuclear talks

BEIJING A senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday that the six-party negotiations in Beijing aimed at scrapping North Korea's nuclear weapons programs were so far unable to reach agreement on core negotiating points for future talks because of the North's unwillingness to compromise.


"Fundamentally," the U.S. deputy secretary of state, Robert Zoellick, told a news briefing in Beijing, "the sense that I get is that there are five parties that are pretty close to agreement on those principles, and the key question is whether North Korea is willing to make the strategic decision it needs to make to go forward."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/02/news/china.php

I really can't see North Korea giving up their new toys for anyone. :(

I can't see the US getting rid of their toys either... too bad :(

No, can't see that myself. BUT also, we don't have our hands out looking for humanitarian aid for food so we can feed our people.


America is one of the largest single donors of aid to the secretive communist state, which has been plagued by famine.

The WFP is currently feeding some 6.5 million North Koreans - nearly a third of the population - and has appealed for 504,000 tons of commodities for this year alone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4121800.stm


Yipper, we are really assholes in the States! :rolleyes: