NKorea calls for end of hostile relations with US

[Jazzy]

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea called for an end of hostile relations with the United States in a New Year's message Friday and said it was committed to making the Korean peninsula nuclear-free through negotiations.

Communist North Korea has long demanded that Washington end hostility toward its government, and said it developed nuclear weapons to deter a U.S. attack. Washington has repeatedly said it has no intention of invading the country.

The New Year statement brightened prospects for North Korea to rejoin stalled international talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs in exchange for aid and other concessions. Washington has sought to coax it to return to the talks, which also include South Korea, China, Russia and Japan.

The North has often said it wants to replace a cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War with a peace treaty and forge diplomatic relations with the U.S. as a way to win security guarantees — demands Washington says should be linked to North Korea's verifiable denuclearization.

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[Clodhopper]

Some good news for a change! Woohoo!

Is this a serious offer, do you know? Sounds like it from the article...

[Bryn Mawr]

Scrat;1277944 wrote: Doesn't matter if its serious, the US needs its boogie man in the neighborhood.


I would ask how many times GWB placed NK on his list of countries to be sorted by military intervention if they did not toe the line?

I would then quote the line :-

"Washington has repeatedly said it has no intention of invading the country."

and ask, "really?".

[Bryn Mawr]

Scrat;1279501 wrote: No I am certain the US is not going to invade NK. China will not allow it. Even as we speak the Koreas are getting chummier every day as is China and Russia, all of them. The US is going to find itself the poor bum on the street looking into the ballroom.


It certainly will if it insists on having the right to pre-emptive strike.

The way to go is to join the international community, not build ever more powerful weapons of mass destruction.

[mikeinie]

If true, this is great news.