liveinfreedom .'s List: N.Korea ..America Peace Initiatives/Negotiations WorldWide & UN

• Listen to the progress of removing a North Korea nuclear weapons threat from as presented to America's senate. Click on the link/s.
  

  
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  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-18

• Read resolution 1441
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-18

• he founding members resolved that the peace of the world must never again be destroyed by the will and wickedness of any man. We created the United Nations Security Council, so that, unlike the League of Nations, our deliberations would be more than talk, our resolutions would be more than wishes. After generations of deceitful dictators and broken treaties and squandered lives, we dedicated ourselves to standards of human dignity shared by all, and to a system of security defended by all.
• Our common security is challenged by regional conflicts -- ethnic and religious strife that is ancient, but not inevitable. In the Middle East, there can be no peace for either side without freedom for both sides
• Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world. Yet this aggression was stopped -- by the might of coalition forces and the will of the United Nations.
   To suspend hostilities, to spare himself, Iraq's dictator accepted a series of commitments. The terms were clear, to him and to all. And he agreed to prove he is complying with every one of those obligations.
   He has proven instead only his contempt for the United Nations, and for all his pledges. By breaking every pledge -- by his deceptions, and by his cruelties -- Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself.
• n 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi regime cease at once the repression of its own people, including the systematic repression of minorities -- which the Council said, threatened international peace and security in the region. This demand goes ignored.
• Tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and torture by beating and burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape. Wives are tortured in front of their husbands, children in the presence of their parents -- and all of these horrors concealed from the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state.
• In 1993, Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American President. Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th. And al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq.
• U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological agents it declared,
• Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's serious violations of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that demand in 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997, citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's behavior totally unacceptable. And in 1999, the demand was renewed yet again.
• s we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N. inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, and to build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy.

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• Just read President Bushe's address to the UN
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-03-19

• North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.
• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.
• Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.
• a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own
• t agreed to international inspections—then kicked out the inspectors.
• On October 3rd, 2007, North Korea agreed to disable its five megawatt reactor, reprocessing plant and nuclear fuel rod fabrication facility by December 31st, 2007; marking significant progress in the six-party disarmament talks.

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• “Axis Of Evil”
• We could talk to North Koreans but were told: “Do not talk about  politics, diplomatic relations, economics and other sensitive issues.”
• Although one pamphlet was entitled US – The Empire Of  Terrorism, the only currency accepted was the American greenback.
• wo million people  have died since the mid1990s because of food shortages.
• While millions of North Koreans starved on a diet of seaweed, cabbage stalks  and grass, Kim imported two Italian chefs to cook him pizzas as he guzzled  brandy.
• Reports of torture, public executions, slave labour and forced abortions in  prison camps have also emerged.

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• South Korean leader Lee Myung-bak said on Saturday that he was open to holding a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il if the talks would yield results.

• Once that announcement is made, North Korea is expected to blow up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor complex in what would be a dramatic, if only symbolic, televised signal of its intent to abandon nuclear arms, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomatic discussions.

• "If North Korea continues to make the right choices it can repair its relationship with the international community ... If North Korea makes the wrong choices, the United States and its partners in the Six-Party Talks will act accordingly."