I have more than once said that this would happen. North Korea has been getting freebies from America for 15 years to stop their nuclear development and has done nothing but make nukes. You cannot deal with madmen. If you read this article you will see even after the 11 disablement measures are actually taken (they have been halted) it would only take North Korea only about a year to start the facilities up again (what a great deal!). Not to even mention the secret uranium project that North Korea has that is still making nuclear material that no one is talking about or the nuclear bombs it already has made for export. So the North Koreans found ways to backed out of all the deals and have make fools out of both the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration. North Korea now hopes to take on what they know will even be a more foolish Obama Administration.

The U.S. State Department continues to be run by liberals and is in denial all over the world. They are just as loony with Iran. There is an old saying. Fool me once and shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me, fool me three times and I should get the Olympic gold metal for foolishness. Does anyone in our government know that North Korea has EMP capabilities? Does anyone care? And Rice thinks Russia will take anything we say on George or elsewhere seriously?

Maybe the world should reward the North Koreans with the Olympics and just pretend that they are such a wonderful free nation like they did with Communist China. I notice the North Koreans waited to after the Olympics to do this. Does anyone really think that was not coordinated with China? Sure, and China’s 14 year old woman gymnasts were 16 years old. You know one of these days this whole foolish appeasement thing is going to unravel worldwide and we are going to be in a world of hurt.

North Korea says it halts nuclear reactor disablement | International | Jerusalem Post

The North’s announcement marks the emergence of the biggest hurdle yet to the communist nation’s denuclearization process under a landmark deal last year and is expected to escalate tension in the nuclear talks involving China, Japan, the two Koreas, the US and Russia.

Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said it suspended the disablement work at the reactor and other facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex as of August 14 because the US did not keep its promise to delist Pyongyang as a terror sponsor under last year’s deal.

The ministry also said the country will “consider soon a step to restore” the Yongbyon nuclear facilities, but did not elaborate.

Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies, called Tuesday’s statement “very serious” and said that it could mean Pyongyang may have decided not to deal with the administration of US President George W. Bush.

South Korean and US officials have said eight of the 11 disablement measures have been finished and that when the entire disablement is completed, it would take at least a year for the North to restart the facilities.

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This is a story about what is going on in North Korea. They actually put children in concentration camps because their ancestors did something. North Korea is a prison state run by a mad cult leader and his mad henchmen.The lunacy is that there are those in the U.S. government who actually think they should trust this madman.

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the world outside these concentration camps is not dramatically better than the world inside them. North Korea is a prison state. Its population is subjected to the twisted universe of Kim Jong Il. The “Dear Leader” indoctrinates his population to believe that their country is a paradise and that he is, at various times, “the God of the Contemporary World,” “the Saint of all Saints” and a deity whose “love and trust in the popular masses are so absolute as to have no condition whatsoever and so broad as to have no limit.”

A famine in the mid-1990s brought about by idiotic management of the North Korean economy may have killed as many as 3 million people, or about 15 percent of the North Korean population. As Jasper Becker writes in his book Rouge Regime, “a death toll of 3 million would mean more victims than in Pol Pot’s Cambodia . . . if 15 percent of [North Korea's] population died, then the death toll, in proportion to the country, surpasses any comparable disaster in the 20th Century.”

Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky has written that “the international community should never trust a state more than it trusts its own people.” If this is a proper standard, then one should not expect any good to come from our current “breakthrough” with Kim Jong Il’s hellish regime.

Why Bush would deal with a mad man is a mystery only known to himself and the mad people running our State Department. I will want to hear the story one day but I fear it might be an advanced case of what Ronald Regan got or some kind of coup d’état. Otherwise, it is very difficult to understand the radical change in Bush in the last few years. Maybe He wants to show some peace gesture to the world before Israel bombs Iran forcing the U.S. to join them. Or perhaps Bush needed this to get China and Russia to sign off on a strike on Iran. Who knows?

The U.S. is being played the fool by North Korea. We get to pay for the dismantling of their aging reactor and to supply them with critical food and energy and they get to keep the nuclear material and their missiles to deliver nukes. They also get to possibly try again to get nuclear material to other terrorists states like Syria and Iran.

Nothing is said about North Korea’s secret Uranium enrichment program that may continue to produce fissionable material. Now we are going to lift all sanctions and embargoes like they actually did something good and just turn a blind eye to the fact they just tried to give Syria what it takes to make a nuke. If that does not make North Korea a terrorist state I do not know what does. Thanks to Israel that plan was stopped but who knows what is going on in the slimy little demented mind of Kim Jong III?.

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It now turns out that the options the U.S. had been contemplating were designed not to punish North Korean duplicity but to encourage it. So it is that, despite its recent collaboration with Hezbollah-sponsor Syria – to say nothing of its intent, in the run-up the Iraq war, to sell $10 million worth of medium-range missiles to Saddam Hussein for use against coalition troops – North Korea no longer will be designated a terrorist state. Never mind that the country has yet to come clean about its nuclear program. In the eyes of the Bush administration, North Korea has been given a clean slate.

And legitimacy. Notwithstanding its defiance of every nuclear treaty it has ever signed – a habit of violation that continues in its latest declaration, which reportedly discusses only plutonium processing activities and not the uranium enrichment and nuclear capabilities that were supposed to have been declared – North Korea is being treated as a credible partner in negotiations instead of the extortionist state that it clearly is. Fool the Bush administration once, the lesson appears to be, and you wind up in the “axis-of-evil.” Fool it repeatedly, and all is forgiven.

As always with North Korea, there are token concessions. To demonstrate its sincerity, Pyongyang has invited foreign TV crews to broadcast its demolition of the cooling tower at the notorious Yongbyon nuclear plant. It promises to be quite the affair, though one would have to be really taken in by spectacle to forget that the plant was already supposed to be completely disabled in the 1990s and, more recently, by the end of 2007. Nor will the made-for-the-cameras moment prove that North Korea has nothing to hide. The facility at Yongbyon is believed to have been shuttered last year, having already produced enough weapons-grade plutonium to build, by some estimates, at least nine nuclear bombs. To see the destruction of this Potemkin reactor as a sign of genuine progress is to yield to illusion.

Our government knows that North Korea is a brainwashing cult and Kim Jong-II is totally insane. Yet, they try to appease him and make deals with these nuclear loons that they know cannot be trusted. Time and time again North Korean leaders have demonstrated their evil, but our delusional state department ignores the truth and deals with this cult to our own peril. It is not just the North Koreans that are nuts, so are the people who set our delusional foreign policy. Everyone in our State Department that are part of this facade richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb club of the week award. Congratulations!

Hidden-camera series reveals nationwide cult

North Korea still imposes the death penalty for those who offend the dictator by expressing faith in a religion such as Christianity, and where tens of thousands of Christians are held in terminal prison camps.A spokesman for Open Doors, which ranks North Korea No. 1 on its World Watch list of countries where Christians suffer the greatest persecution, said even on Christmas Day, executions occur.

“The state is working hard to wipe out Christianity,” said Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra. “Nowhere in the world is such a high price paid as in this country with its tyrannical regime,” he said.

Living in denial about North Korea is just more proof that the Bush administration foreign policy is totally nuts. Lets not forget that his foreign policy toward Iran will soon allow them to have nuclear weapons and that he intends to create a terrorist state next to Israel to create peace in the Middle East?

The real state of play, then, is that North Korea will not fully
declare, much less disable or dismantle, its nuclear weapons programs,
and it has continued to proliferate. To mask this noncompliance, the
State Department will talk optimistically of the next phases of
diplomacy, continuing to provide North Korea with heavy fuel oil,
removing it from the list of state sponsors of terror, even negotiating
a peace treaty and full normalization. In short, no amount of evidence
of North Korea’s bad intentions will deter the Bush administration from
declaring diplomatic victory.

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Bush was nuts to ever believe the North Koreans. This bate and switch game has been going on for decades. Korea is not going to give up its secret nuclear program. You cannot deal with a total lunatic and his cult followers.

clipped from online.wsj.com There’s more positive news from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea: Its leaders have refused to make any further disclosure concerning its nuclear programs. How is this umpteenth violation of the Feb. 13, 2006, agreement in the Six-Party Talks positive? Because at a critical moment on a gravely important issue, North Korea has again shown its true colors, thus providing the United States an opportunity to extricate itself from this unwise and dangerous deal.

FOXNews.com - North Korean Tubes Found to Be Contaminated With Uranium Traces - Politics Republican Party Democratic Party Political Spectrum: “WASHINGTON — North Korea recently turned over to the United States equipment found to be contaminated with traces of highly enriched uranium — HEU — apparently contradicting the country’s stance that it never had such a program, FOX News has confirmed.
The equipment was described as a set of ’smelted aluminum tubes’ suitable for an HEU centrifuge program, a step necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
‘They got some ‘splainin‘ to do,’ one U.S. arms control official said when first told of the discovery about a month ago, he recalled to FOX.”

So N. Korea has a secret Uranium enrichment program after all. Duh! Don’t know why the loons in our State Department want to believe they don’t. They let you come in on the aging reactor because they don’t need it and don’t have the know how to dismantle it. They are counting on Uncle Santa to do that for them and meanwhile they get nice gift wrapped presents for being naughty or nice.

No Love for This Lucy! - HUMAN EVENTS: “Readers of Peanuts, over time, came to realize Lucy was incapable of doing what she promised and Charlie Brown was, for some reason, incapable of understanding this. Many observers of US/North Korean relations have come to realize, over time, Pyongyang is incapable of meeting commitments and the US, for some reason, is incapable of understanding this, constantly subjecting itself to ridicule. It is time for the US and other Six Party talk participants to recognize there is no hope for North Korea taking positive steps to disarm absent regime change. Unless this happens, the only change in Pyongyang’s conduct we can expect is the nature of its deceit. “

North Korea has learned that the US State Department is full of pansies and wusses and they are taking advantage of that fact.

Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus - HUMAN EVENTS: “North Korea may be shuttering its reactors, but based on history it will rattle the neutrons again once the economic benefits associated with cooperation dry up. More likely, Pyongyang is continuing its atomic program through proxies such as Syria. John Bolton, who also served as the US ambassador to the UN, said that North Korea may be using Syria and Iran as “safe havens” for its nuclear activity. In fact, Bolton said President Bush warned Pyongyang last year against transferring nuclear material to Syria.”

Israel’s raid must have been important enough to risk war. Likely, only a target that posed a serious threat for the Jewish state would have justified the attack and the deafening silence across the region and in Washington suggest that no state has anything to gain by publicizing the facts.Unless the US, Israeli and Syrian governments announce a contrary set of facts regarding the September attack, the evidence points to one conclusion: North Korea was supplying Syria with a nuclear reactor that could produce plutonium for a future Arab bomb.

I would think that with North Korea’s record we would not be stupid. From what I read we did not even know about the Syrian reactor until Israel presented us with the evidence. Bush has make one foreign policy blunder after another so I guess the Korean farce is just par for the course.

Now we know why all the bluster from Syria about taking back the Golan heights with the threat of war this summer. Syria was creating a diversion. Ever since Israel took out their nuclear facility they have been as quiet as a mouse. My Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award goes to our State Department for how they handle US foreign policy. Congradulations!

Clouds over Korea - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
Clouds of good cheer billowed out from Pyongyang and Beijing last week, giving rise once again to the hope that maybe, just maybe, peace is at hand on a Korean Peninsula freed of nuclear arms.
Amid this optimism, it may be curmudgeonly to say so but the history of dealing with North Korea over six decades justifies a dose of skepticism. That path is strewn with North Korean deception, lies, broken promises, assassinations and attempted assassinations, kidnappings, other violence, and no small amount of belligerent bluster.

A flawed North Korea deal - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “Former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton told The Washington Times yesterday that Yongbyon ‘is an old facility at or near the end of its useful life.’ Therefore, North Korea’s decision to give up that reactor ‘doesn’t amount to much of a concession.’ The real issue, he said, is whether Yongbyon is the entire North Korean nuclear program, or whether there are other programs we don’t know about. Yet the agreement announced Wednesday ‘contains no verification provision’ dealing with nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon.”

They make it all sound so wonderful. Like North Korea is really changing. They can’t change they are a totally brainwashed society and the leaders of North Korea are evil people who have allowed millions to die for their own ends. Why would anyone trust the word of a madman? He is playing us like a fiddle. He gets us to take care of his problem with a reactor that is falling apart. Meanwhile we give him everything he wants and he keeps his atom Bombs. After he gets what he wants he just makes up a reason to kick us out. Our foreign policy has been demented for a long time and it did not begin with George Bush.

WorldNetDaily: Concentration camps hold a million people?: “More than 1 million North Koreans are locked up in concentration camps in conditions reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s death camps, with guards reportedly stomping on the necks of babies born to prisoners and ’scientists’ performing gruesome experiments on living victims, a Christian ministry is reporting. The report comes from the Netherlands-based Open Doors International, which has been monitoring persecuted Christians since the 1950s. “

Now you have some understanding of how the loony little god of North Korea stays in power. The fact that we would even deal with such an insane demonic man says that our State Department is totally out of touch with reality. We certainly see this in other foreign policy as well.

American Thinker Blog: Intense alarm about NoKo nuke materials in Syria: “Caroline Glick points out alarming implications of the September 6 Israeli raid on a claimed North Korean nuclear materials site in Syria. If official leaks about the IAF raid are true, the North Koreans have again reneged on their solemn promises to the Six-Nation Group to retreat on their own nuke program. Instead, they have secretly shipped nuclear weapons materials, possibly off-the-shelf fissile uranium or plutonium, to Syria, in close collaboration with Iran. “

I don’t know why we continually think that we can negotiate with insane people. The North Koreans just use our gullibility to their advantage.

WorldNetDaily: North Korean dictator a god?: “A North Korean man who escaped the bondage of that dictatorship and became a Christian says most North Koreans believe Kim Jong-il actually is a god, because that is how he is portrayed, according to a report from Voice of the Martyrs, the worldwide ministry to persecuted Christians. The Christian, now living in South Korea, was identified only as Mr. Kim. He told Voice of the Martyrs that Kim Jong-il, and his late father Kim Il Sung, both are portrayed as gods. “

You’re In Bad Hands With Nanny State - Guest - Sep 08, 07: “Thomas Jefferson wrote in his autobiography that, ‘Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.’ And boy was he ever right on that. Because since the time he wrote those words we have seen what happens when governments dictate to the people how to ’sow’ and when to ‘reap’. What’s that? You want a list? Ok, how about any number of the currently floundering European style socialist states, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and the former Soviet Union for starters.

But despite all these examples, today talk of expanding government here in American into realms reserved by the people as their own to control dominates society. Whether it is whispers of socialized healthcare where citizens will be required to regiment their doctors visits based on what a lonely bureaucrat in Washington decides or questions about what the government will do to bail out people with poor credit, shoddy finances and living beyond their means after they take out loans they could not afford to pay back, there is a continuing push to expand the umbrella of the Nanny State over each and everyone of us. Yes, that push is to encompass even those of us that are able to function in a civilized society and interact with other people independent of this control. Because without us in that latter category being onboard, those that would benefit from such policies would not be able to have them.

We’re the producers. We’re the ones from which the money to fund such failed ideas flows. We are the new slave class.”

The Case for a Shah of Iraq - Bruce Walker - Aug 18, 07: “The reality is that a Shah of Iraq would be at least as legitimate as President Assad or President Mubarak, the rulers for life of Syria and Egypt, (and in the case of Assad, the heir to the throne of the Presidency of Syria) and much more legitimate that Kim Jong Il, who inherited his throne as “Dear Leader” of North Korea. “

I agree and wrote about it before. They need a strongman. They are not civilized enough for democratic rule.

July 23, 2007: “After the attack, US warships raced to the spot where the ship went down where they picked up three lifeboats. Most of the North Korean sailors aboard were either injured or dead. Twenty in all died in the attack. They all bore symptoms of contamination. After the episode, the area was cordoned off and underwater equipment dropped to salvage the cargo from the sunken ship.
All the parties to the incident, the United States, North Korea and Iran, have kept the incident under wraps as the situation in and around the Gulf is inflammable enough to explode into a full-blown Iranian-US clash at the slightest provocation.”

This is the first I have heard of this. I Don’t know if it is true. The report claims that The US sunk a North Koran ship on July 12th near Iran that was carrying nuclear materials.

FrontPage magazine.com :: War Crimes by Jamie Glazov
“Patterson: The bottom line is the Left in this country only wins when America loses. Its a tried-and-true principle founded in the anti-war efforts of Vietnam and the 1960s. To bring down ‘the man’ during Vietnam meant to oppose your country and side with the Communist enemies we faced in North Vietnam, the Soviet Union, North Korea, China and Cuba. The U.S. military never lost a battle throughout the Vietnam War but mainstream media, anti-American radicals and defeatist Democrats colluded to lose the war any way. The Left successfully parlayed the international humiliation and defeat of Vietnam in political capital in Washington, DC and, as a result, elected a radical House and Senate in 1974 and Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976. An almost identical scenario is playing out today. Democrats, and their allies on the Left, have entered into an informal alliance with Islamofascism. They retook the House and Senate last year based on their anti-war, anti-Bush positions. Their hopes to regain the White House in 2008 hinge on turning Iraq and the greater global war against Islamofascism into defeat. They never offer a platform or strategy to address national security or the War on Terror, only a constant drum beat of negativity and defeatism.”

“War Crimes” is a book that explains the treason that comes from the Left. The Left can only gain power when this nation loses.

My view is that the Left power brokers will do anything including treason to gain that power. Their allegiance is not to the United States it is to a socialist world order run by those who believe they are the enlightened rightful rulers of this world. They are a self rightious delusional people who see themselves as God’s gift to save the world.

Defense analyst: Russia choosing sides in new ‘cold war’ (OneNewsNow.com): “Copley acknowledges what he describes as a ‘reshaping’ of the world into a new cold war. ‘And the new cold war adversary will actually center more around China and Iran and North Korea than it will around Russia,’ he states. ‘We just don’t want to force Russia to join the new cold war on the other side of the fence. China is a prime concern.’”

So why do we make China rich by buying enormous amounts of their products when they will use this wealth to build a military to threaten us? That is not a very sane policy if you ask me.