N. Korea Puts Brakes On Nuke Disarmament

Communist Leaders Lash Out, Threaten Renewed Nuclear Work After U.S. Military Drill

(CBS/AP)  North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities and is considering restoring them.

The North's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it took the measure because Washington has failed to remove the country from its list of terror sponsors as a reward for disabling the facilities.

The ministry said in a statement the suspension took effect Aug. 14 and it has notified countries involved in international talks on its nuclear programs.

Pyongyang has been disabling the facilities under a disarmament-for-aid deal reached last year.

The halt in disarmament progress came a week after North Korea lashed out against U.S.-South Korea military exercises and warned it would boost its "war deterrent" against military threats.

A spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said last Wednesday the North "will increase its war deterrent in every way as long as the U.S. and its followers continue posing military threats to it."

The reference to its "war deterrent" usually refers to the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.

That warning came just two days day after South Korea and the U.S. launched Ulchi Freedom Guardian, an annual computer-simulated war game.

On Sunday, North Korea claimed the joint military exercises were a rehearsal for an attack against it and warned it would repel any aggression.

"The army and people of (North Korea) will never remain an onlooker to the U.S. military and the South Korean bellicose forces staging frantic anti-(North Korea) war moves," the North's official Korean Central News Agency quoted Gen. Kim Jong Gak as saying at a meeting in its capital.

"Should the U.S. imperialists and their following forces misjudge (North Korea's) will and act rashly," North Korea's people and army "will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors to the last man," Kim said.

The harsh North Korean rhetoric was not new, but came three days after South Korea and the U.S. ended the military drills.

The drills involved 56,000 South Korean troops and 10,000 U.S. soldiers in South Korea and abroad, and were aimed at preparing the South Korean government to retake wartime command of its forces from Washington in 2012.

Despite repeated denials from Seoul and Washington, North Korea has denounced the drills as a preparation for an attack on the communist country.

North Korea and the U.S. are in the midst of a dispute over how to verify the North's declared nuclear programs under an aid-for-disarmament deal.

North Korea has accused the U.S. of delaying its removal from a U.S. terror blacklist. The U.S. has said it will drop North Korea from the list only after it agrees to a full nuclear verification plan.

[eggy1620]

Some of the posters here are under the mistaken impression that the North Koreans had actually begun disarmament. The statement should be read as a confirmation that they did not even begin to hold up their end of the deal.

[nskduke2]

lovegetpeace
The Russia and Georgia problem happen before the US-Poland missile defense deal.Russia even agreed that a missile defense base was need in Europe,they just wanted it in different places.Putin wanted the base built in Russia while Bush leaned toward Poland.Russia needs to talk to the US about the missile defense base,instead of making threats.Russia agreed to the missile defense base,but neither the US or Russia agreed on the location.Russia needs to talk to the US,not just make threats.

[smurfcrusher]

Proof that Bush can''t even appease the terrorists that he negotiates with.

well, he''s a consistent failure, at least...

[chimpyout]

If McSame gets elected, the criminals will all go free, and the incompetents won''t even have to get up from their desks.

[babooph]

No nation will want to rid itself of "the bomb".The US will not attack anyplace that has it.

[michtop]

Start dropping cluster bombs on the little cities and if that dont work start dropping the moabs on the biggest cities.Better yet turn that country into a parking lot and be done with it.

[xyno-2009]

And the latest approval ratings for your Democratic Congress ia 9%

Posted by dmw1167 at 02:03 PM : Aug 26, 2008

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Whoa ... that''s pretty low.

[scottyusa]

I always knew you could not trust North Korea. They ALWAYS reneg on their promises.

[trrrorislam3]

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PARDONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON TO EVEN TERRORISTS

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm

My Reasons for the Pardons
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/opinion/18CLIN.html?pagewanted=all&ei=5070&en=66ba82eaf117b24b&ex=1183521600

Do the Clintons Now Support Jail Time for Perjurers?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288392,00.html

In a bone-chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton''s pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn''t serious about fighting terrorism.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/olson.htm

LOOK WHO PARDONS TERRORISTS

Bill Clinton pardons controversy

FALN Pardons of 1999

On August 11 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States usually in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-clinton-pardons-controversy