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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (682736)	5/19/2005 8:39:50 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: All I see from the Dems is NO NO NO to anything done It's not a question of what they are for, but rather who and what they are against. They have no new ideas to bring to the table, and are rendering themselves irrelevant. I wish this were not so, as I think we need 2 strong parties.

To: JDN who wrote (682736)	5/19/2005 12:38:55 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769667

White House: U.S., North Koreans met Thursday, May 19, 2005 Posted: 12:04 PM EDT (1604 GMT) MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Reuters) -- U.S. and North Korean officials held direct talks last Friday, and the American side used the session to urge North Korea to return to six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the White House said Thursday. White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters traveling with President Bush that the "working-level contacts" between the two countries were held in New York. "This channel was used to reiterate the message directly that the North Koreans need to return to the six-party talks without conditions so we can pursue a policy of a nuclear-free peninsula," he said. It was the first time the New York channel has been used since last December. With North Korea taking steps to advance its nuclear capabilities and the six-party talks looking increasingly fragile, Washington is under pressure from its own partners to open some form of dialogue. Duffy said the New York channel was used to convey privately what Bush has been saying publicly, that North Korea needs to return to the talks about its nuclear program. The United States on Wednesday promised expanded bilateral engagement with North Korea if the communist state returns to the long-stalled six-party talks and pledges to abandon its nuclear weapons program. "All North Korea has to do is commit to resuming the six-party process and we could have as many bilaterals as they want within that process," said Joseph DeTrani, U.S. envoy to the talks. Nearly a year after the last round of talks involving North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, there are concerns that Pyongyang may conduct an underground test of a nuclear device. Actual six-party negotiations aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear capabilities have not been held since June 2004 because Pyongyang, for various reasons, refused to set a date.