Envoys to meet on N.Korea

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean, Japanese and U.S. envoys will meet on Saturday in Seoul to try and coax North Korea
back to talks on its nuclear programmes, South Korea's foreign minister said.

The meeting comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told a visiting Chinese envoy Pyonyang would return to six-party
nuclear talks if conditions were right and Washington showed sincerity, the North's official media reported on Tuesday.

That was the first statement by the reclusive Kim since North Korea explicitly declared on February 10 that it had atomic
weapons and was also pulling out of the talks with South Korea, China, Russia, the United States and Japan.

"The government agreed to hold a three-way meeting between South Korea, the United States and China in Seoul on
February 26 to discuss the result of the visit by China's Wang Jarui to the North and the early resumption of the six-party talks,"
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon told reporters.

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May I make a suggestion here? Bring the check book with you and be generous. Don't give N. Korea anything. But by offering to them as a gesture of good will some substantial low interest loans to try and bring them into the 21st century will pay us back in spades. Don't even bring up the nuclear shit. If they have their minds set on owning a few nukes there is nothing we can do to prevent that without paying one hell of a price our selves. If they got a few nukes and that allows them to reduce their costly million man army down to a hundred thousand because they are no longer needed we all win. And get all them US troops off their border too. All they are doing is making everyone more nervous. Shit.

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1. I'm not sure the US should even be involved

The "Swing Your Dick" approach to foreign relations we've got is NOT going to help matters. I have a nasty feeling the US's "coaxing" is going to be threats which N Korea is not going to react well to.