-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! North Korea says U.S. ties at critical juncture Sunday, 18 March 2001 12:25 (ET) North Korea says U.S. ties at critical juncture By CHARLES LEE SEOUL, South Korea, March 18 (UPI) -- North Korea on Sunday said its ties with the United States were at a "critical juncture" and urged the Bush administration to follow the constructive North Korea policy pursued by its predecessors. If the United States reconsiders a Clinton-era deal to help the communist country build nuclear reactors, it will risk drastically worsening relations, the North's state-run press said. North Korea will "take up an extreme hard-line stance" if the United States takes a tough stance against it, Radio Pyongyang said. It blasted U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who reportedly has recommended President George W. Bush to scrap the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea. The U.S. newsletter Defense News reported that Helms made the recommendation to the president in a letter sent March 9. Under the landmark agreement, the United States and its allies agreed to supply North Korea with two 1,000-megawatt light-water reactors and 500,000 tons of fuel heavy oil annually until the completion of the first reactor, in return for an end to North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons development program. But the $4.6 billion project has been delayed following Pyongyang's test-fire of a ballistic missile in 1998 over Japan, a main financial contributor to the project. The North's mouthpiece threatened to revive nuclear weapons development program, saying it was "entitled to take an option." "It is its revolutionary determination to counter the use of force with force and return war for war and surely win with a thousand-fold retaliation," Radio Pyongyang said. "The United States should drop its daydream of isolating and stifling the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea by force of arms and opt to sincerely implement the agreed framework. This is also beneficial to the United States," it added. It was the latest in a series of attacks on the new U.S. administration since the Seoul-Washington summit earlier this month which raised questions about the reliability of North Korea. Meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung on May 7, Bush said he didn't trust the communist dictatorship in Pyongyang and had no plans to immediately resume talks on scrapping its long-range missile program. Bush's tough stance has prompted North Korea to launch a bitter diatribe against the new administration which it insists has employed "provocative approach" against the Stalinist state. The North warned that "the army and people of (North Korea) would take thousand-fold revenge on them." Bush plans to travel to South Korea in October before attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Shanghai, China. Officials here said Bush's Seoul trip would focus on policy coordination between the two allies in dealing with North Korea. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
