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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

North Korea Draws line in the sand

North Korea has rejected further talks on its nuclear program using language that could close the door on future progress. Until that is the PRK needs something from the world community.

The rhetoric issued by Choe Su Hon, North Korea's deputy foreign minister is issued in a final sounding context.

"It is quite preposterous that the DPRK, under the groundless U.S. sanctions, takes part in the talks on discussing its own nuclear abandonment," Choe said, referring to North Korea‘s formal name, the Democratic People‘s Republic of Korea. He said it was a matter of principle "that cannot tolerate even the slightest concession."


That said the DPRK often issues statements that sound final or sound like ultimatums in public only to make some small amount of progress in private dialogues when the countries motives require their cooperation with other countries in the world. This set of circumstances is unfortunately few and far between.

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