N Korea calls for US peace treaty

[ConfuZed]

North Korea has reaffirmed its call for a peace treaty with the US, ahead of the resumption of talks aimed at ending the nuclear standoff on the peninsula.

Pyongyang said in a statement that a full treaty replacing the armistice signed at the end of the Korean War in 1953 was needed to resolve the crisis.

Six-nation talks are due to resume in Beijing on Tuesday.

North Korea walked out of the talks in February 2004, and has since admitted stockpiling atomic weapons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4704351.stm

[agincourt]

1. Well what's holding up a treaty?

The shape of the table?

[madeline_con]

7. "The shape of the table?"

That, or what will be served for lunch.

[agincourt]

12. The Viet Nam peace negotiations were delayed in 1968,

because neither side could agree on the shape of the table in Paris.

[marbuc]

2. Peace treaties are soooo 9/10

Does Kim seriously think we'd actually adhere to one?

[jillan]

3. Let's hope * doesn't screw this up!

I honestly hope bushco. treats these talks with respect, willing to work together, and not pull off that arrogant attitude with these people.

[Fridays Child]

5. You're kidding, right?

Everything Bushco touches turns to shit.

[bpilgrim]

6. they wouldn't give'm a signed doc promising not to attack them 2 years ag

so my hopes aren't high but i sure hope they work something out but the bush has painted himself in a corner with his axis-of-evil rhetoric' and will come-off as negotiating with TERRORIST who are producing nukes and everyone knows it.


peace treaty, meece beatie

peace

[FloridaPat]

4. Who in the world is crazy enough to trust * to abide by a treaty?

He trashed enough when he first got to Washington. He's a compulsive liar and is going to do what he wants. Unless he's bought them off to get N. Korea out of sight and off the axis of evil list. Then he can concentrate on the ME and not have reminders that he only goes after countries with oil on the axis of evil list.

I constantly amazes me how I always seem to think up the worst reason our government does something, and I haven't been disappointed yet. Suprised at how low they can go though. And it's been a couple of years for that.

[Moderator]

8. kick

[Judi Lynn]

9. North Korea calls for peace treaty with US

Friday, July 22, 2005. 4:00pm (AEST)

North Korea calls for peace treaty with US

North Korea has called for a peace treaty with the United States to replace an armistice reached at the end of the Korean War in 1953.

A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman says this could persuade the communist state to drop its nuclear program.

North Korea is technically still at war with the United States and South Korea because the Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman says replacing the armistice with a lasting peace mechanism is essential for the reunification of North and South Korea and establishing peace between them.
(snip/...)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1420421.htm

[NYC Liberal]

10. Duh-bya doesn't want a peace treaty

"Today's war on terror will not end with a ceremony, a surrender ceremony on a deck of a battleship"

And he considers NK to be a member of the "Axis of Evil" so no doubt a part of the War on Terra.

[ngGale]

11. What do you mean, they want a peace treaty ...

we don't want peace, it might cut into our defense money. Bottom line, we are some greedy sob's. :sarcasm: