North Korea to Clinton and Obama: We'll trade the bomb for food...

Someone didn't get the memo that N. Korea is under new management since the Clinton days. The son does not always follow in the father's footsteps. In some cases the son abandons the father's ideology completely. As a "legacy child" I'm a perfect example of that.

We shall see where Kim Jung-un's footesteps fall.
 
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Hey, U_D, speaking of not getting memos...




Can you name the Secretary of State to win a $5.00 bet?
 
But how it handles talks with Washington over its food crisis and a decades-old standoff over its nuclear weapons program will provide the strongest clues yet about how the country will behave as it extends the Kim dynasty into a third generation - whether it will lean toward provocation or reconciliation and how tightly it will cling to its nuclear program.

North Korea's neighbors and Washington are watching to see whether Kim Jong Un can consolidate power over a nation that proudly trumpets its efforts to build nuclear weapons and has a history of aggression against its southern neighbor and rival. There are fears that North Korea could seek to build Kim Jong Un's credentials, and generate a sense of national unity, by conducting a missile or nuclear test or staging an attack on South Korea.

Signs so far are that Pyongyang is striving for continuity and maintaining the elder Kim's policies. That has good and bad implications for policymakers in Washington and Seoul.

On one hand, Kim Jong Il's marquee achievement is the North's nuclear program, seen as crucial to the survival of an authoritarian government that struggles to feed its people. Pyongyang conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and has developed missiles with the potential to attack its neighbors and potentially reach the United States.

Zhang Liangui, a Korea specialist and professor at a Chinese Communist Party training academy, told The Global Times newspaper that the North sees its nuclear program as part of Kim Jong Il's legacy, an indication that it would be impossible for Pyongyang to abandon it - at least under the present leadership.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120112/D9S7BGDO0.html

THIS TIME!

Will be the last time,
That we will fight like this...
INXS
 
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