North Korea to Become US Ally?
The meeting between Kim Jong Il and Chinese officials this week must of been quite interesting:
Kim said “the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the behest of President Kim Il Sung,” his late father and the North’s longtime former leader, the North’s Korean Central News Agency reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, the reclusive leader said it was Pyongyang’s “consistent stand to seek a negotiated peaceful solution of the nuclear issue,” and he hoped “positive progress” would be made at the talks.
The comments came after Kim met with Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who is on a diplomatic mission to the North.
I’m theorizing that the Chinese must have put some big time pressure on Kim to resume the negotiations and begin saying the right things. The Chinese want to get this nuclear issue wrapped up before the 2008 Olympics so it doesn’t over shadow China’s chance to be the world’s center of attention and they may be growing impatient with Kim’s defiance.
However, the pressure from the Chinese may have caused Kim to make statements like this to rib the Chinese a little:
What North Korean leader Kim Jong-il really wants is for his secretive state to become an ally of the United States, a top South Korean official said on Thursday.
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said that resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis would lead to the normalization of the Pyongyang-Washington relationship.
Could you imagine North Korea as a US ally? Maybe we can sign them up to join the Coalition of the Willing and they could run Abu Graib and Gitmo for us. The US could avoid the constant criticism it receives from operating those two installations. If the North Koreans ran them and reports of torture and executions arose people would just say that the North Koreans were just being themselves, no big deal. I think I am on to something here. Condi Rice are you listening?
North Korea as a US ally would almost certainly be the first sign of the apocolypse.
It is a good move to make an enemy a friend, since he goes out of his way to prove his friendship.
Likewise, always watch your friends: they are the dangerous ones.
It's the South Koreans we have to watch. If we can play the North as a friend — good for us.
But of course, it's so obvious. Didn't you ever read this gem;
"The Agreed Framework Is Brain Dead
Shotgun Wedding Is the Only Option to Defuse Crisis"
by Kim Myong Chol, October 24, 2002 http://www.kimsoft.com/2002/nk-nuke5.htm