North Korea

[Educa]

The White House says there will be no direct talks with North Korea over ending its nuclear weapons program, unless such talks occur within the framework of broader regional negotiations. A North Korean diplomat at the United Nations says direct talks with the United States would show that Washington is changing what he called its hostile policy toward North Korea. U.S. and North Korean diplomats have met privately on the sidelines of a previous session of the six-party talks in Beijing.

 

The Bush administration is trying to keep the focus on those six-party talks which involve the United States, North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia because President Bush believes that is the best chance for a binding agreement ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

 

A Seoul-based human rights group says North Korea has executed 70 defectors who were captured in China and repatriated. The private Commission to Help North Korean Refugees cited informants in the North as saying the executions were carried out to set an example for others thinking about fleeing.

 

 

China is North Korea's only important ally and by treaty returns North Koreans, who Beijing regards as illegal immigrants and not as refugees.More than 100,000 North Koreans are believed to be hiding in China.

[P.K.]

Welcome to Planet Earth. At least they aren't Islamist!

 

Quote: G Bush "They misunderestimated me!"

 

Be afraid. Be very afraid....