Sunday, June 16, 2013

N. Korea proposes “senior-level” talks with U.S.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/n-korea-proposes-senior-level-talks-with-us/2013/06/16/b26da680-d653-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html?hpid=z3

SEOUL — North Korea on Sunday proposed wide-ranging “senior-level” talks with the United States, an offer it said Washington should accept without setting any “preconditions” about denuclearization.
The North’s proposal marked the latest attempt at reconciliation for a family-run police state that spent much of March and April making threats. In a statement issued by its state-run news agency and attributed to the National Defense Commission, a top policy body, North Korea said the talks should be used to defuse “military tensions,” draft a peace treaty for the peninsula, and discuss mutual denuclearization.
when you sit down to talk on this level should you take certain things off the table, does that not restrict the talk and narrow it's effectiveness.  like Beohner and tax cuts off the table, when tax cuts was the topic, we all know where that is.
the reference to the US should accept this i think Pres. is capable of maneuvering his way around that and include it in the discourse, it's a step albeit with limitations to us it's still a start.
But analysts say an agreement for dialogue will be difficult because Pyongyang and Washington have fundamentally different views on what must happen before the sides sit down. The U.S. has made its own standing offer to the North for dialogue — but only if Pyongyang’s leadership first shows interest in giving up its small stockpile of nuclear weapons.
In its statement Sunday, the North said its weapons program would “go on and on without vacillation” unless the entire peninsula is denuclearized — meaning the U.S. removes all nuclear assets from the area. The North also called on the U.S. to drop all sanctions against it.
this will definitely be a tough row to hoe, but we have IMO the best guy to pull this off, as long as the right wing stays out and doesn't pop visit and push their agenda of our way or nukes ville.  they also need to stop trying to make Pres. look bad and giving their right wing extremist opinions on the air, of what will or won't happen it's garbage they don't know, but are than willing to put the country in peril just say i told you so, making the situation an i told you so means that you intended to sink the whole thing, which over the past 4 1/2 years is just what they've been doing.