"Nuclear compliance tops Rice's agenda for North Korea"
"by Arshad Mohammed, Reuters | February 24, 2008
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit South Korea, China, and Japan this week to seek ways to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programs before time runs out for the Bush administration....
Making her first visit to Northeast Asia in more than a year, Rice will attend the inauguration of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak in Seoul tomorrow and then travel to Beijing and Tokyo for consultations.
The success of the disarmament effort will depend in part on whether Lee and China adopt a tougher stance toward North Korea, analysts say. Lee has pledged to link South Korean aid to the North to progress on disarmament....
According to US officials and analysts, the declaration's sticking point has been Pyongyang's reluctance to discuss any transfers of nuclear technology to other nations, notably Syria, and its suspected pursuit of uranium enrichment....
The United States has questions about any possible North Korean role in a suspected Syrian covert nuclear site that was bombed by Israel in September. Syria has denied having a nuclear program but the case remains murky....
Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian facility bombed by Israel was not nuclear
I'm so sick of the damn Zionist press and their lying!!!!!
Michael Green, a former White House official now at the CSIS think tank in Washington... said he would like to see the Bush administration adopt a more coercive stance in its diplomacy to suggest there would be a price to pay for North Korea not keeping its agreements....
How many wars can the U.S. conduct at once?
Lee's inauguration may give Washington a way to get tougher with North Korea because of his plans to link economic aid to progress on denuclearization. Lee has also suggested that he would press the North to improve its human rights record...."
O.K.
"S. Korean leader vows to reconcile with North"
I thought he was going to get tough on them?
"by Associated Press | February 24, 2008
SEOUL - South Korea's conservative president-elect said yesterday that his government would continue reconciliation efforts with North Korea, despite his pledge to be more critical of the communist country than his predecessors have....
President-elect Lee Myung-bak said during a meeting with Singapore's former prime minister Goh Chok Tong in Seoul: "The basic thought of the new government remains unchanged - that South and North Korea should reconcile and maintain peace," according to a statement released by his office.
But the advise to Bush is get tough, huh?
Lee, who takes office tomorrow, will be South Korea's first conservative leader in 10 years. He has vowed to continue to seek reconciliation with North Korea but in a way that brings more criticism to the process. His liberal predecessors gave unconditional aid and concessions as part of reconciliation efforts.
Indicating his tough stance, Lee has named university professor Nam Joo-hong, a heavy Pyongyang critic, as unification minister in charge of relations with the North.
North Korea has not commented on Lee's election since the Dec. 19 vote. Lee won by a landslide, as voters expressed disillusionment with the liberal government headed by Roh Moo-hyun.
Makes me wonder if it wasn't ANOTHER RIGGED ELECTION.
The day before the election, Goh toured an industrial park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong where South Korean companies run factories using cheap North Korean labor. The project is a symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement.
Lee has said the zone would become more prosperous if North Korea opens up to the outside world.
Lee, 66, is a former CEO of the construction division of the Hyundai conglomerate and former mayor of Seoul. A special prosecutor last week cleared him of financial fraud allegations stemming from a 2001 stock trading case.
During the presidential campaign, Lee said he would use his skills as a business executive to help make the South Korean economy one of the top seven in the world. Lee wants to reduce government bureaucracy, which business groups say is hampering the country's growth. He hopes to increase his clout in an April parliamentary election, when his conservative party will seek a majority that will allow it to change economic policy...."
Oh, so he is on the Globalist boat.
And he "won" an election, too, 'eh?
