Replies to post #59495 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[lurqer]

What I want to know is what caused the NK to abandon the agreement reached with the prior administration.

Didn't they recently revel that they had never lived up to the earlier agreement.

lurqer

[S Chun-Li]

"What I want to know is what caused the NK to abandon the agreement..."

Just a guess: The timing suggests that NK are trying to help out their friend Saddam by trying to make the Pentagon too busy to invade Iraq. If NK are determined to help their friends, they may pull some more tricks as the ME build up of US forces continues. Maybe even a warning foray into SK?

[sylvester80]

From what I read it was because Bush froze oil shipments to NK including providing power (which was part of the agreement). Of course also part of the agreement was for NK to stop their nuclear research. So each one just keeps escalating it a notch...

What's kind of funny is that NC voluntarily admitted that they have been doing nuclear research, during their last NK-U.S meeting, and it came as a shock to the administration. The U.S. administration was clueless. Which is why we don't even know where the labs or the nukes are. But instead of us continue talking on this issue, we broke off the talks, cut off the oil and power part of the agreement and the rest is history.