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North Korea Watch: United States Says “NO” to Direct Talks

US Ambassador John Bolton, who is pictured here on 7 June 2006, ruled out direct talks with North Korea over Pyongyang’s plan to conduct a intercontinental ballistic missile test.

AP: U.S. says no to talks with North Korea

North Korea said Wednesday it wants direct talks with the United States over its apparent plans to test-fire a long-range missile, but a top U.S. envoy rejected the request.

North Korea this week issued a bristling declaration of its right to carry out the launch and said U.S. concerns should be resolved through negotiations. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said a missile threat wasn’t the way to seek dialogue.

“You don’t normally engage in conversations by threatening to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, and it’s not a way to produce a conversation because if you acquiesce in aberrant behavior, you simply encourage the repetition of it, which we’re obviously not going to do,” Bolton told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Yes, Bolton is absolutely correct. The United States needs to “EXTINGUISH” this rogue behavior of North Korea.

President Bush said North Korea faces further isolation from the international community if it test-fires the missile believed capable of reaching U.S. soil.

“It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes who have announced they have nuclear warheads, fire missiles,” Bush said at a meeting with European leaders in Vienna, Austria. “This is not the way you conduct business in the world.”

The U.S. and Japan have said they could consider sanctions against North Korea if it goes ahead with the launch, and Washington was weighing responses that could include attempting to shoot down the missile.

The United States continues to have three options:

1. Preemptive destruction of the missile prior to launch with B-2 delivered Smart Bombs.

2. Missile interception by Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) or Aegis Ship-Based BMD or both.

or…..

3. Do nothing and await diplomatic resolution through the United Nations Security Council.

When the weather clears the United States MUST be poised to take action.

Stay tuned……

A commercial satellite photo of North Korea’s Nodong missile launch site taken on by a Digital Globe satellite and annotated and released by analysts at GlobalSecurity.org on May 24, 2006. The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Monday against a missile launch that experts say could reach as far as Alaska and threatened harsh action if the test flight goes ahead.

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