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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:14 PM Feb 2016

U.S. rejected North Korea peace talks offer before last nuclear test: State Department

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said on Sunday.

State Department spokesman John Kirby made the comment in response to a Wall Street Journal report that the White House secretly agreed to peace talks just before Pyongyang's latest nuclear bomb test.

The newspaper, citing U.S. officials familiar with the events, said the Obama administration dropped its condition that Pyongyang take steps to curtail its nuclear arsenal before any peace talks take place, instead calling for North Korea's atomic weapons program to be just one part of the discussion.

Pyongyang declined the proposal, and its Jan. 6 nuclear test ended the diplomatic plans, the newspaper reported.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-rejected-north-korea-peace-talks-offer-last-203011914.html

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U.S. rejected North Korea peace talks offer before last nuclear test: State Department (Original Post) Little Tich Feb 2016 OP

Can't blame the administration CommonSenseDemocrat Feb 2016 #1

Don't worry. The GOP will find a way. They always do. Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #2

I do blame the administration, and all the other . . FairWinds Feb 2016 #3

I have to agree. trillion Feb 2016 #4

Because it's always America's fault, right? GGJohn Feb 2016 #5

Post removed Post removed Feb 2016 #6

+ 1000+ eom Mika Feb 2016 #7

We need to destroy all nuclear weapons. n/t WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2016 #8

CommonSenseDemocrat

(377 posts)

1. Can't blame the administration

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:28 PM

Feb 2016

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)

2. Don't worry. The GOP will find a way. They always do.

Reply to CommonSenseDemocrat (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:10 PM

Feb 2016

FairWinds

(1,717 posts)

3. I do blame the administration, and all the other . .

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:21 PM

Feb 2016

US administrations that have kept us poised at the brink of nuclear horror.

The USG's idea of "denuclearization" is that everybody else dis-arms
while they get to keep threatening to use them.

The US has been in violation of Article VI of the Non-Proliferation
Treaty since it came into effect in 1970.

Sincerely, Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project

Which aims to put an end to the madness.