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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (20592)	4/3/2003 11:40:33 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

LOL! You're dumber than I thought....

To: Don Earl who wrote (20592)	4/3/2003 6:49:55 PM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 93284

U.N. Envoy Warns of War in Korea By JANE WARDELL, Associated Press Writer LONDON - The standoff between the United States and North Korea (news - web sites) over the Asian nation's nuclear ambitions could escalate into war, a U.N. envoy warned Thursday. "I think a war is unnecessary. It is unthinkable in its consequences, and yet it's entirely possible," Maurice Strong said upon returning from the Korean peninsula. Strong, a special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), said he believed North Korea was "prepared to go to war if they believe the security and the integrity of their nation is really threatened, and they do." Strong said he expected a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the nuclear crisis in North Korea next week to include a "very, very vigorous and possibly divisive" debate. The Security Council will meet Wednesday, a day before North Korea's withdrawal from a key nonproliferation treaty becomes final. The United States has been pressing the 15-nation Security Council to adopt a statement condemning North Korea for failing to meet its international obligations to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. But China, which has close ties to North Korea, has refused to discuss it. North Korea announced Jan. 12 that it intended to withdraw from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog agency referred the matter to the Security Council. "I don't think you can expect resolutions from the first meeting of the Security Council," Strong said. "This is a process. ... All the countries want to tread carefully here. This is a tremendous threat and a conflict nobody needs, nobody wants." The U.S-led war in Iraq (news - web sites) has made the negotiation process more difficult and was a recurring topic of conversation during his recent visit to Pyongyang, North Korea, Strong said. "They paid very close attention and had a lot of concern about this ... as evidence in their mind that the U.S. is actually now following up and implementing its right of pre-emption against another one of the powers that was designated as a part of the axis of evil," he said. "They believe from a variety of statements that have been made ... that they are next on the list. They feel a real sense of threat." President Bush (news - web sites) has accused North Korea of being part of an "axis of evil," along with Iraq and Iran. The Bush administration wants to settle the dispute with Pyongyang through multilateral channels, saying North Korea's nuclear program threatens not just American interests but also those of Russia, China, Japan and South Korea (news - web sites). China has been trying to bring Washington and Pyongyang together, and in mid-March China's U.N. ambassador, Wang Yingfan, said he didn't want the Security Council to be involved. The ambassador said Wednesday that China was still working "with others" to arrange talks between North Korea and the United States. In London, Strong said it was clear from his discussions that North Korea wants a nonaggression pact with the United States, something Washington has shown no sign of suggesting. Strong said North Korea might begin reprocessing spent nuclear fuel as a bargaining tool, assuming that nuclear powers receive more respect. "It will take them further down that road, and they know that it will make it more difficult to resolve the problem. But I sense, however, they also think it might provide greater incentives for solving it," he said. story.news.yahoo.com