Negotiating With Madmen

Remember the news from just days ago when everything with North Korea looked so wonderful because of a new agreement? Well, it's literally yesterday's news, now.

Of course, we'll hear how this is just a negotiating tactic for knocking out the details on the aforementioned agreement - and it likely is just that. But sheer stupidity across the table always makes for a difficult, if not impossible negotiation - considering they always do as they please when everything is said and done.

In a second day of bluster after its disarmament accord, North Korea accused the United States on Wednesday of planning a nuclear attack and warned it could retaliate.

North Korea "is fully ready to decisively control a pre-emptive nuclear attack with a strong retaliatory blow," the communist nation's Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in an English-language commentary carried by the state Korean Central News Agency.

Comments

[!]

They will come around. They are just trying to see if they can sneak a few extra things in and hope we jump on it. They just don't know us.

[GrannyToad]

O the game will play on & on until there's a new US President NK thinks it can snooker. Just gimme. Take their idiot-childish abusive language. SSDD.

[chance]

I don't trust North Korea at all. I must say that I've never really given them much thought until I saw a special on PBS I think. It was on recently, within the last year. Basically they let a camera crew follow around a family to see how they lived. This was the first time the government ever allowed anything like this. I could not believe what I was seeing! Every family is forced to have a picture of the current leader in their homes and there is a speaker in every home tuned to the government radio station that is always on. They still think the US is very actively trying to overthrow the country based on what the government tells them. Almost like the Korean war is still going on. They blame everything on the US! There is no bread at the stores - its the Americans doing it somehow. While the family was on camera the power went out, which apparently happens all the time. Everyone in the dark room immediately cursed the Americans for cutting the power! They are all completely brainwashed. The show was fascinating, I'm sure if anyone reading has seen it they will know exactly what I'm talking about. If you haven't seen it I recommend it, it was fascinating - and scary.

[TheAlamo]

Douglas MacArthur and our soldiers defeated N. Korea in the early 50's.
He was fired for it and we had to give back the ground.
Wonderful.