Carter Urges 'Combined' Focus on N. Korea

[Whoa_Nelly]

Carter Urges 'Combined' Focus on N. Korea

Former President Carter Urges 'Combined Commitment' by U.S., Others to Defuse N. Korean Nuke Crisis

The Associated Press



TOKYO Sept. 5 —
Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday a "combined commitment" by the United States and other nations to guarantee North Korea's security could help defuse the crisis over the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.

Carter blamed Washington and the communist state for the unraveling of a landmark U.S.-North Korean agreement that he helped mediate in 1994 but said he believed the current crisis could be resolved diplomatically with concessions on both sides.

"There has to be some not yet apparent flexibility on both sides and the full support of other countries," he told reporters in Tokyo after meeting with Japanese officials to discuss humanitarian projects by his Georgia-based Carter Center. "I don't see it as an impossibility."

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The 76-year-old former U.S. president said Friday that North Korea's leaders would never trust a unilateral nonaggression pledge by Washington. He suggested an arrangement under which such a pledge could not be revoked unless South Korea agreed that it was facing a threat of attack from its neighbor.


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[w4rma]

1. I hope that Bush* listens to this great president.

I doubt he will though.

[TahitiNut]

2. Bush* isn't fit to shine Carter's shoes.

:puke:

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Georgie Porgie

is too dumb and immature to understand the adult world concept of sharing, much less creating and/or working with global diplomatic methods and policies.

[teryang]

4. An agreement signed by this administration

...isn't worth the paper it is printed on. That's what started the problem. It is performance not promises that have to be undertaken. It is plain that the current American regime has adopted the Israeli approach to negotiations. Give nothing, demand everything. An outbreak of violence is therefore in the likely category.

[MidwestMomma]

5. I like the last sentence of the article

Carter says: "If I were called on which I don't conceive to be possible I would be glad to help."

He knows this administration would never let him have a major role in any diplomatic mission because he might a) actually be successful and promote peace b) they would have to admit to needing someone's help outside of the cabal.

Too bad for us and the world.