Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Korea Experts: U.S. Spurned '02 Kim Effort
WASHINGTON - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in a previously undisclosed message to President Bush in November 2002, said the United States and North Korea "should be able to resolve the nuclear issue in compliance with the demands of the new century," according to two private U.S. Korea experts who delivered Kim's message to the White House
This is news? No, it is "Let's attack whatever Administration is in office - especially this one" again. The whole thing was reported at the time: after years of knowing about it the US finally tells NK to quit fooling around with nuclear recovery/enrichment and come to the six-nation talks, NK responds with an offer to talk to only the US and only if the US makes such broad non-agression promises as to preclude retaliation for NK attacking SK or Japan, POTUS laughs them out of the room.