Reporter Cites ‘Deliberate Effort’ By Administration Hawks To Undermine North Korea Disarmament
Reporter Cites ‘Deliberate Effort’ By Administration Hawks To Undermine North Korea Disarmament
Earlier this year, the Bush administration attempted to blacklist several North Korean businesses accused of using counterfeit currencies. Those blacklisting efforts, which South Korea’s government asked the U.S. not to press for the good of the nuclear weapons talks, caused the U.S. and South Korea to drift “so far apart on North Korea policy” that there was “speculation the longtime partners are getting close to divorce.”
This morning, BBC reporter Katty Kay argued that the blacklisting was a deliberate effort by administration hawks “to undermine a deal on the table” and there is a split in the administration over whether it wants “to eliminate the North Korean nuclear program or…to change the regime there.” Watch it:
Full transcript:
MITCHELL: The new Treasury secretary may assume a bigger role but right now it’s Condi Rice.
KAY: If you look at North Korea though, there is an argument that Condoleezza Rice has lost the argument there. She had last year a deal on the table with the North Koreans. Then you see the hawks in the administration starting to talk about this issue of money laundering, which has been going on for decades. The North Koreans got furious about it. Why was there a deliberate — what seems to be a deliberate — effort to undermine a deal on the table? Does this administration want to eliminate the North Korean nuclear program or does it want to change the regime there? That’s a split in the administration.
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It’s simple, really…the objective for agitating against North Korea is not to force them to relinquish their nuclear weapons.
The objective is to provide an excuse to initiate hostilities.
The administration had to fabricate reasons to invade and occupy Iraq…fortunately for them, North Korea is making it a bit easier.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:29 pmGotta stir the pot. A unified Korea (even if it resulted somehow in a pacified, pliable North) would leave us few excuses to muck around in Asia-Pacific affairs. We can’t afford to let the South Koreans have a say in their own destiny, lest they make positive progress and deny the US a must-have “crisis.” National self-interest and self-determination is good…but only up to a point. Someday, the South Koreans will thank us for keeping this threat alive and seething.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:36 pmExactly Bush wants more reasons to justify more arms expenditure
worst president ever known to mankind worse than saddam
July 16th, 2006 at 1:36 pm#1 I was going to crticize you for being cynical…until I read my own post. ;->
Carry on.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:37 pmWas Chris Matthews interested in what this reporter had to say? Did he have a follow up question to her comments? I will be greatly surprised if that were the case.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:39 pmI watched it Erroll (#5). He doesn’t follow up at all…next asks some question about Nixon. You were right.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:42 pmThis administration is so evil and war mongering that it makes Hitler & his gang look like pacifists.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:56 pmBush wants to ignite WWIII, so whatever > enough said!
July 16th, 2006 at 2:00 pmYou can see Putin is ready to blow bush to kingdom come
July 16th, 2006 at 2:21 pmYeah, clearly it’s better for North Korea to counterfeit money to buy more weapons parts and support shady networks. Eh, what?
Seriously, is there anything that Iran, North Korea and other nations like that shouldn’t be allowed to do? You guys will put up with just about anything from them it seems.
July 16th, 2006 at 2:22 pmFor more background on the Bush administration’s undermining South Korea and later White House flip-flops on North Korean engagement, see:
July 16th, 2006 at 2:28 pm“Bush’s U-Turn on North Korean Talks.”
You will not see any diplomacy on the part of the Bush boys, they dont know what it is. Bush read about it once when he was a cheerleader, but forgot what he read.
Rice read about it at Stanford, but just does not have the balls to put diplomacy into effect, it is too difficult for her to fathom.
Bolton, well Bolton is probably as ignorant about diplomacy as Bush is.
The diplomatic corps. What diplomatic corps? The whole Dept of State are political hacks. They sit around and suck on their thumbs until Bush and Rove tell them to get in front of the cameras and mumble something.
This administration is a disaster and the sooner the people of this country wake up, the better off we will be.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:55 pmThe only regime change we true Americans should be working for is the ousting of the current Bushco regime.
Vash on Bysh, click on Clyde!
July 16th, 2006 at 5:58 pmMs. Kay is at least trying to steer the conversation away from fellating the POTUS. Matthews is a bigger sycophant than Joe Lieberman (and that’s going somewhere). That 43’s grandpappy was a fascist doesn’t surprise me–his son and his grandson are died-in-the-wool fascists, too. When is this country gonna wake up to the reality that we’re living in a fascist state? Too late, I think, is the definitive answer. Google Bush fascism 14 points and see if you don’t agree.
July 16th, 2006 at 7:24 pmMethinks the answer as to why someone scuttled the compromise is contained in Kay’s words.
Money laundering. Start tracing THAT and you start down the road to the money behind some surprising enterprises. Like 9/11/01.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:12 pmYeah, clearly it’s better for North Korea to counterfeit money to buy more weapons parts and support shady networks. Eh, what?
Seriously, is there anything that Iran, North Korea and other nations like that shouldn’t be allowed to do? You guys will put up with just about anything from them it seems.
Comment by Seixon — July 16, 2006 @ 2:22 pm
Wrong Norway Bob (again). Of course they should not be allowed to. You keep missing the point(reality)-Bushco is all talk/ hat. This what we get when a bunch of guys/ and one gal that were high school nerds are running/ and ruining our country. They do not have a clue. This is the most inept administration in history. Of course you might find one in history some where. Maybe easter island.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:30 pmCaption contest..I can’t wait to get my hands around Juan Williams neck!
July 16th, 2006 at 10:32 pm