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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9080)	7/10/2006 1:15:50 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Deadly Nonsense From North Korea english.chosun.com The deputy chief of North Korea's mission to the UN on Friday reiterated the North will return to six-party talks on its nuclear program only when the U.S. unfreezes Pyongyang’s assets in a Macau Bank. The U.S. chief negotiator in the talks, Christopher Hill, commented Sunday that if Pyongyang implemented its promise under an accord to dismantle its nuclear program, it would effectively have the same amount -- US$24 million -- in its hands. Hill added the North’s demand makes no sense. Nothing North Korea does or says makes sense in a way we would comprehend. If the North starts to dismantle its nuclear program under the accord reached in the six-party talks last September, South Korea reciprocates with 2 million kw of free electricity or US$20 million worth of energy week after week, according to Hill’s estimate. But North Korea is adamant it will only talk again when the U.S. lifts sanctions so Pyongyang can get its hands on a paltry $24 million frozen in the Banco Delta Asia. By any standards this is absurd. The North is estimated to have spent $6 million to make the seven missiles it shot into the sea on Wednesday, initial development costs not included. In other words, the North wasted a quarter of the money it so desperately wants back on the missile test. The World Food Program has earmarked $102 million for food for 1.9 million North Koreans over the next two years. That means the money spent on the test would have fed 200,000 starving North Koreans for a full year. But Pyongyang went ahead with the launch in a harebrained attempt to get the dear leader’s bank account back at the cost of food for its own people. The regime has taken 70 million Koreans in North and South hostage by developing nuclear weapons, testing missiles and maintaining its Stalinist system. That brinkmanship helps the regime cling on by its fingernails from day to day. But will it last another 20 years? Will it last 10? One hand clamped to the gun threatening its own starving people, the other on the trigger aiming at South Korea, the regime is gradually killing itself. It should take a breath and look around instead. That is the only way it will find a realistic way to survive.