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.

Here is a perfect picture of a nation run by elitist socialist control freaks. The government says that they are parents and the people are like children. So how do they treat their children? They kick them out of cyclone relief shelters, reject foreign aid and tell them to go eat frogs.

At some point the world is going to have to do something about these monsters that get total control of whole nations like we see now in Myanmar, North Korea and other places.

One of the reasons I point out what is going on in Myanmar is that any nation that disarms its people runs the risk of becoming another Myanmar when the control freaks rise to power. Even the U.S. might be going in that direction because they are now electing leaders who think that government is the answer for their every need. Remember once the control freaks get in power they change the laws and the people are made powerless to do anything about removing them. Can it happen here? Keep electing control freak socialists of the Far Left to our government and find out. If the Far Left gains control of government I bet that within 6 years you also will be children of your government parents.

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Why would they want rice? wondered the military regime.

After several days of praising the work of the United Nations and charities, the regime’s official newspaper renewed its attacks on foreign aid and insisted Burmese could survive without outside help.

“The government and the people are like parents and children,” the paper said. “We, all the people, were pleased with the efforts of the government.”

“Myanmar (Burmese) people are capable enough of rising from such natural disasters even if they are not provided with international assistance,” the newspaper said.

“Myanmar people can easily get fish for dishes by just fishing in the fields and ditches,” the paper said. “In the early monsoon, large edible frogs are abundant.”

“The people (of the Irrawaddy delta) can survive with self-reliant efforts even if they are not given chocolate bars from (the) international community,” it added.

No aid agencies are known to have provided chocolate bars to victims of Cyclone Nargis.

The United Nations estimates that about one million people in the delta are still without emergency aid. (Agencies)

John Bolton and I have been saying the North Koreans have been playing us for fools since all this started. Even after North Korea got caught assembling a Plutonium reactor in Syria the Foggy Bottom ostriches put their head in the sand and pretended not to see their secret weapons program. It is also obvious that ostriches are setting policy in the Middle East. These Foggy Bottom ostriches never learn because they are influenced by bird brains like Albright, Rice, Scowcroft, Brzezinski, and Carter who fear rabbits but like all ostriches eat their excrement. These Liberal idealists actually expect good will and sanity to come out of evil demented murderous people. Ostriches tend to put their neck out so their heads can be chopped off. They are so farsighted they see mirage utopias of unreachable delusions. They are dangerous because they continually kick against those who try to feed them the truth. They put the whole world loony bin in a position of extreme danger. Just as did the ostriches prior to World War II.

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Mr. Bush was reportedly told last week by his Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Mike McConnell, that the U.S. intelligence community does not believe the regime in Pyongyang will denuclearize and that it will, instead, simply cheat on this deal as on all the previous ones. That being the case, it is all the more obvious that the president’s call for patience should apply first and foremost to his State Department’s efforts to give away what is left of the store — appropriate and needed designations of North Korea as a state-sponsor of terror and enemy of this country.

At what point in his life did Jimmy Carter sell out to the Devil? Every wonder why Billy Carter drank himself to death. He knew his brother.

Jimmy Carter: Emissary of evil

Jimmy Carter is all about Jimmy Carter. During his presidency, he gave up the Panama Canal and allowed the Ayatollahs to take power in Iran – all for the praise of the international community. In 1980, he asked the Soviet Union to release Jewish emigrants, hoping that such action would soften American feeling against the USSR and thereby swing the presidential election to him. In 1984, he told the Russians that if Reagan were re-elected, there would not “be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power.” In 2002, Carter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, despite a clear indication by Nobel Committee members that the prize was meant as a rebuke to President Bush.

Does all this make Carter evil, or just a useful idiot? By all accounts, Carter is highly intelligent – perhaps the most intelligent president of the last 50 years. It would be foolish to write him off as simply naive. He is quite willing to be used by dictators from Venezuela to Cuba to North Korea, so long as helping them polishes his legacy. For almost three decades, Carter has pandered to enemies of Western Civilization, shielding his treasonous behavior with the title of “ex-president.” His Hamas-hugging is just the latest entry in a political diary that would make Osama bin Laden proud.

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.

The Chinese leaders intend to make it clear to the world that they run Tibet. So why does the world intend to go to China to play games with these people in their world class filthy city? Why does the world continue to buy their slave labor built filthy products that are undermining Western society? If the Chinese must rule other countries with their communist cult leader controlled army, why do we aid them in doing this with our own wealth? Let them become a isolated nation run by loony cult leaders like North Korea.

FOXNews.com - China’s Ruling Party Paper Urges ‘Crush’ of Tibetan Protests, McCain Joins Criticism - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

BEIJING — The flagship newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party called Saturday for efforts to “resolutely crush” anti-government demonstrations by Tibetans, while Beijing urged people to turn in those on a “Most Wanted” list of 21 protesters.

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.

Israelis hit Syrian ‘nuclear bomb plant’ - Times Online: “ISRAEL’S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times. Professor Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University was one of the founders of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona, the source of the Jewish state’s undeclared nuclear arsenal. “I suspect that it was a plant for processing plutonium, namely, a factory for assembling the bomb,” he said. “I think the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] transferred to Syria weapons-grade plutonium in raw form, that is nuggets of easily transported metal in protective cans. I think the shaping and casting of the plutonium was supposed to be in Syria.”

So how do we know there won’t be more, or that Iran was not also given plutonium by the North Koreans. I don’t think anyone can say that Iran does not have nukes with a large degree of confidence. They could have even got nukes after the Soviet Union collapse.

ANALYSIS: Iran laughing at U.S. lack of nuclear intelligence - Haaretz - Israel News
The noise that was heard last night in Tehran, according to credible reports, was a hearty Persian laugh after looking at the U.S. intelligence service’s website. The unclassified document that Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Mike McConnell published, titled “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” as a laundered version that faithfully represents the greatest secrets collected by the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence services, can appropriately be called “much evaluation on no intelligence.”

“Behind the heap of words, presented as “a low or medium level of certainty,” the differences between the worst-case and the best-case views on when Iran will be capable of producing a nuclear weapon are not that great. These range from somewhere between 2009 and the following five years, starting in 2010. Even McConnell’s intelligence officers agree that Iran can buy nukes off the shelf - from Syria, North Korea and maybe Pakistan - and that the renewal of the program, if it is indeed on a coffee break, depends only on the intentions of the rulers, and those intentions will change only when the rulers are replaced. The CIA is so angry with Bush, it seems, that it is ready to go to great lengths in order to help another president.

Iran is right, we do not have a clue. Why publish a report so the Leftist media can make a big deal about how long it will really be before Iran can go nuclear when the report itself says it only has a low or medium level of certainty? Even Israel says the report is wrong.

This was obviously designed to play into the democrats and embarrass the President. The intelligence heads play it safe and take themselves off the hook if Bush should order a strike on Iran. If Bush is right then they can just tell the new administration that the report had a low degree of certainty. If things go wrong after a Bush strike they can tell the new administration that they told Bush there was no reason to launch an attack. It is a win win situation for them but the “intelligence” report totally fails the country. If the combined intelligence of 16 intelligence agencies is nothing more than a guess what good are they? I am not impressed and neither is Iran.

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.

Caroline B. Glick: The results of brilliant theories: “Given North Koreans’ abysmal track record it is far from clear why Hill thinks they can be trusted now. But beyond that, it isn’t even clear that dismantling or disabling Yangbyon today will make much difference. As former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton wrote in August, Yanbyon ceased to be the central component of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program several years ago. In recent years Pyongyang scattered its nuclear program to secret sites both inside and outside the country. And those sites are overlooked in Hill’s agreement. This again this returns us to his statement on Wednesday. How can the State Department’s point man on North Korea claim that the US has no ‘political issues’ with North Korea less than two months after Israel reportedly destroyed a North Korean nuclear installation in Syria modeled after the Yongbyon complex?

Given North Korea’s apparent nuclear collaboration with Syria and its well-documented nuclear collaboration with Iran, to claim that the US has no political issues to discuss with North Korea is to suspend disbelief. So Rice’s State Department insists on moving forward towards implementing an agreement predicated on a denial of reality. Perhaps worst of all, it is an agreement which leaves Japan, America’s most important Asian ally and North Korea’s most vulnerable target high and dry. “

This article points out some of the delusion that has been coming out of our State Department. I have to admit that most of the foreign policy “experts” have a very unique world view. They do not see the world as it exists. They see a delusional world of what should be, because apparently in their world everyone is trustworthy and no one is evil. The State Department has been operating under the delusions of silly old women, or men who act like women for quite a while now.

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.