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In "America's North Korea Policy: Adding Lanes to the Road," Klingner argued even before this latest provocation that it was time for the United States to rethink its North Korea policy. "Despite public perceptions of a major U.S. policy shift toward North Korea, President Obama is continuing the Bush engagement strategy. The Six-Party Talks should not be the only venue for U.S.-North Korean engagement," Klingner concludes, "[a] more comprehensive strategy would offer Pyongyang a path to greater economic and diplomatic benefits while continuing to insist on compliance, conditionality, reciprocity, and verification." Among the proposals he makes in an extensive analysis of recent US diplomatic efforts is that: (1) [I]t has never been a question of whether to engage North Korea, but of how to do so. It is critical to understand that engagement is a means rather than an end, and it is equally important to control how engagement is applied. For the time being, the U.S. should continue diplomatic attempts to reduce the North Korean nuclear threat. The likelihood for success, though, is not high; (2) [w]hile the U.S. should continue to strive for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear threat, employing a combination of all instruments of national power, the Obama Administration should also accept that there simply may be no set of inducements to ensure North Korean abandonment of its nuclear weapons; (3) [t]he U.S. should establish non-flexible deadlines so that Pyongyang cannot continue to drag out negotiations. In addition, it would be prudent for Washington to initiate contingency plans with South Korea and Japan should the Six-Party Talks no longer seem to be a viable policy option
Analysis: US looking for Russians, Chinese to lead
By STEVEN R. HURST – 18 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has tough words for North Korea, but it's looking to China and Russia to do the heavy lifting to punish Pyongyang for its latest nuclear test.
Originally posted by Adrifter
reply to post by cautiouslypessimistic
I respect your opinion, yet not your poise. I do not think it is accurate, and a little flamboyant.
Originally posted by awakentired
reply to post by cautiouslypessimistic
AMEN and ArrrughAAA cautious!! I am responsible for this horse# government. I admit it and I can point at you as being the ass that let it happen too...any of you. Now what can we do about it?
Start a movement and be found at the bottom of an automobile accident with 3 semis?
Don't get me wrong I'm USMC qualified expert rifleman 5x ...but I cant stop that semi
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Originally posted by MischeviousElf
To add a Haiku poem on the situation Short haiku on Korea in "Your Daily Haiku thread"
reply to post by born2BWild
However the differance here is that unlike when the Bankers and early Zionists paid Marx to go a write a little book starting Communiism or Socialism proper, whilst also funding the Eugenics, and Capitilistic empires.... they choose and did that with a Plan.
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The Bilderbergers, Banking Cartels, Corporations, Skull & Bones, Hawks or Zionists will have it on their own terms according to their plans, even they cant really control this nutter, there is no Resources or strategic interests there for them either.
[edit on 27-5-2009 by MischeviousElf]
From "Klaatu Barada Nikto:" "The greatest threat to our national security and way of life is the 'n-word' occupying the white house, not Korea."
I admire North Korea's courage in these last 56 years, and especially today, and I hope this noble little country that stands up to the world's biggest bully does not suffer much devastation.
AMEN and ArrrughAAA cautious!! I am responsible for this horse# government. I admit it and I can point at you as being the ass that let it happen too...any of you. Now what can we do about it?
Start a movement and be found at the bottom of an automobile accident with 3 semis?
Don't get me wrong I'm USMC qualified expert rifleman 5x ...but I cant stop that semi
We are all at fault.
It's funny though. Everytiime the topic turns to public responsibility, there is inevitably a reason(read: excuse) as to why we can't take control of that responsibility.
Couldn't be that these excuses are the exact reason why we have been put in the position we are in, could it?