USA & North Korea Could Resume DeNuclearization Talks

[Chef Ramsay]

TOKYO — The United States and North Korea have been actively discussing the possibility of returning to denuclearization talks, raising the prospect of a new round of diplomacy even as Washington takes a tougher line against Pyongyang.

The countries’ nuclear envoys have been discussing the idea of “talks about talks,” according to multiple people with knowledge of the conversations. But they have not been able to agree on the logistics — in no small part because of North Korea’s continuing Ebola quarantine.

“We want to test if they have an interest in resuming negotiations,” a senior U.S. administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “I think we’ve made it very clear that we would like to see them take some steps first.”

Those steps would include suspending work at North Korea’s nuclear facilities and pledging not to conduct any further nuclear tests, he said.

After years of broken North Korean promises, American negotiators are wary about taking Pyongyang at its word. But North Korea reacted angrily Sunday to the suggestion that it, not Washington, was the hurdle to resuming talks.

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[Ingatqhvq]

North Korea is a joke, US should stop talk with North Korea.
They just want aid.

[Chef Ramsay]

North Korea strikes down US talks, vows 'final doom'
 

North Korea on Wednesday ruled out resuming dialogue with the "gangster-like" United States, and vowed to respond to any US aggression with nuclear strikes and cyber warfare.

The bellicose statement from the country's top military body, the National Defence Commission (NDC), came after reported moves by Washington and Pyongyang to revive long-stalled six-nation talks on denuclearisation.

It also preceded the start in early March of annual joint US-South Korea military exercises that always presage a sharp spike in military tensions and rhetoric on the divided peninsula.

The NDC statement was an apparent reaction to remarks Barack Obama made regarding the eventual collapse of the regime in North Korea, which the US president called the "most cut-off nation on Earth".

The NDC statement, which labelled the Obama administration a mud-slinging "cesspool," said the president's comments amounted to a threat to engineer the country's downfall.

"Since the gangster-like US imperialists are blaring that they will 'bring down' the DPRK (North Korea)... the army and people of the DPRK cannot but officially notify the Obama administration... that the DPRK has neither need nor willingness to sit at negotiating table with the US any longer," the NDC said.

More...http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-strikes-down-us-talks-vows-final-020143607.html

[thejaytiesto]

Its insane that these lunatics are in possession of nuclear misiles.

[Agestorzrxx]

I guess talking just doesn't cut it!

[Snail2]

North Koreans shouldn't surrender their nukes to the US. Those missiles are their only trump in hand. Until they have those things they can evade a "korean spring" and other US attempts to "export democracy".

[Chef Ramsay]

Hope Dwindles for U.S.-NK Relations

Amid mounting tension between the U.S. and North Korea over the hacking incident at Sony Pictures Entertainment and annual tension incited by the ROK-U.S. joint military exercises, relations between the two nations are expected to further deteriorate after North Korea’s reaction to recent comments by U.S. President Barack Obama.

In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on February 4th, the North’s National Defense Commission declared, with a litany of scathing criticism, that it would be pointless engage in dialogue with the U.S. after President Barack Obama gave a speech on “bringing down the regime.”

“It is the decision of the army and people of the DPRK to have no longer need or willingness to sit at [the] negotiating table with the U.S. since the latter seeks to stamp out the ideology of the former and ‘bring down’ its social system,” the statement read.

Referring to the president as the “root of all evil,” a “power abuser,” and a “wild dog,” among other inflammatory remarks typical of the North’s rhetoric, the statement is assumed to reflect the views of Kim Jong Eun himself, given its release from the highest organ of state authority, the National Defense Commission.

More...http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=12879&cataId=nk00400

[Chef Ramsay]

North Korea says it sees no need to negotiate with "gangster" U.S.

(Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it sees no more need to negotiate with the United States, accusing Washington of plotting to "bring down" its regime, and threatened to strike back using all its military resources.
North Korea routinely seeks to raise tensions ahead of annual joint military drills by U.S. and South Korean forces that usually begin in March. This year, Pyongyang has offered to suspend nuclear testing if Washington calls off the exercises.

However, North Korea's National Defence Commission said on Wednesday the United States was inching close to "igniting a war of aggression" and that the Obama administration was working to trigger its collapse.
The commission, Pyongyang's supreme leadership body, is headed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"Since the gangster-like U.S. imperialists are blaring that they will "bring down" the DPRK ... the army and people of the DPRK cannot but officially notify the Obama administration of the USA that the DPRK has neither need nor willingness to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S. any longer," it said.

Using the North's official name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it said Pyongyang had decided "to write the last page of ... U.S. history".

"(Smaller), precision and diversified nuclear striking means and ground, naval, underwater, air and cyber warfare means will be used," the commission said in the statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

More...http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/northkorea-usa-idINKBN0L80AI20150204

[saddampbuh]

when usa gives up its nuclear weapons the koreans should give up theirs

[CoinCidental]

when usa gives up its nuclear weapons the koreans should give up theirs

and then we will all have to speak russian or chinese ...........no thx

im glad there is a stalemate at the moment

people are inherently greedy by nature , fear of nuclear missiles might be the only thing thats stopping some wars ....would russia stop at ukraine or would they try to take more european countries with their vastly superior army and weapons ?

[saddampbuh]

and then we will all have to speak russian or chinese ...........no thx

im glad there is a stalemate at the moment

people are inherently greedy by nature , fear of nuclear missiles might be the only thing thats stopping some wars ....would russia stop at ukraine or would they try to take more european countries with their vastly superior army and weapons ?

maybe 70+ years ago russia had designs on europe but not now i think, you're correct about threat of nuclear warfare putting countries off starting wars of course, were it not for the dprk's nukes it would likely have ended up like libya or iraq