NKorea accuses US of war plans as delicate nuclear talks begin in Beijing

[Iceburg]

BEIJING (AFP) May 12, 2004
North Korea Wednesday accused the United States of planning war as envoys from six countries opened delicate working-level talks here aimed at defusing a standoff over the Stalinist regime's nuclear program.
Rodong Sinmun, mouthpiece of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, urged South Korea to join with the North in opposing what it said was a US scheme to unleash military conflict on the peninsula.

"A touch-and-go tension in the true sense of the word is persisting in Korea due to the US imperialists' reckless moves to start a war against (North Korea) under the pretext of the nuclear issue," it said.

"Unavoidable is the confrontation between the Koreans in the north and the south, who are advancing along the road of peace and peaceful reunification, and the US, which is working to block it."

The commentary might lower already modest expectations of any concrete outcome from meetings in Beijing among delegates from the United States, China, the two Koreas, Japan and Russia.

"I don't think that they, particularly the Americans and the North Koreans, will be able to narrow the gap," said Wu Guoguang, an international relations scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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[BRLIB]

1. There's a term I haven't seen in a while but it is certainly as

appropriate to apply "mouthpiece" to all spokesmen and apologists for the Bu$h regime.

[newyawker99]

3. Hi BRLIB!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[demdave]

2. Show me a day when they didn't accuse the U.S. of war plans, use my link.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

I especially like reading about all the floral baskets Kim Il Sung receives. Too bad they aren't fruit baskets, then maybe his "devoted followers" could eat.