http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/secure/2005/1_04/ne.asp Report: U.S. tells Pyongyang it seeks no regime change The United States has informed North Korea that it does not seek the ouster of Kim Jong-Il, a Japanese newspaper reported last week. Instead, the United States seeks a gradual "transformation" of the totalitarian regime. Asahi Shimbun reported Dec. 18 that Joseph DeTrani, the special envoy for the North Korea talks, conveyed the U.S. position toward North Korea during a meeting with Han Song-Ryol, deputy chief of the North Korean mission to the United Nations. DeTrani was attempting to explain Washington's position to convince North Korea that it does not have a "hostile" posture toward the communist state. North Korea has said it will wait until after President Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20 and his state of the union speech afterwards before deciding whether to return to the six-party nuclear talks. The U.S. position toward North Korea is now being called "regime transformation," implying that Kim will remain in power and that the U.S. wants to help the communist state reform and open up. Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, are said to favor a policy of regime change. Wolfowitz is said to view the North Korean regime as akin to Nazi Germany. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
