Bush eyes early lifting of terror listing to reward North Korea

Source: The Age

THE Bush Administration is expected to ask Congress to remove North Korea from its terrorist watch list within days, after Pyongyang indicated it would take the required steps to permanently disable its nuclear reactor and produce a long-awaited list of its nuclear activities by today.

North Korea has invited foreign television stations to broadcast the destruction of a cooling tower tomorrow at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, which the director of Korean affairs at the State Department, Sung Kim, will also attend.

In a show of goodwill, the Bush Administration is expected to ask Congress, perhaps as early as today, to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a status it earned in 1988. This would leave just Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba on the list.

Being on the list incurs bans on sales of arms and dual-use items from the US and, most importantly, on economic assistance, including through such bodies as the World Bank.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/bush-eyes-early-lifting-of-terror-listing-to-reward-north-korea-20080625-2wst.html

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CIA prolly bribed teh fux outta Kim

Aren't we just rewarding North Korea for doing what they're supposed to do?

Didn't Governor Bush criticize President Clinton for the same thing?

What is so special about Cuba that we refuse to normalize relations?

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1) There may be something coming out that reveals that the tradersa and sellers in this Administration sold our secrets to North Korea and they want to legitimize it retroactively so that everyone can argue about the legality in the usual state of fuzziness and they can get away with breaking the laws on trading with N. Korea.

2) They want to take our soldiers from South Korea and use them for their bombing of Iran. Not OUR bombing - THEIR bombing and invasion.

3) They have decided that it is more profitable for their corporate friends if they can trade with N Korea rather than maintain a blockade in which only nuclear selling is going on.

4) They want to establish bases there and use it for manufacturing nuclear energy supplies at a nice low cost.

5) New source of slave labor - more profits for friends?

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