2003.08.01

U-S on DPRK (VOA) Here's more on what Bolton had to say here. It wasn't really much. I think the Embassy  got pressured into holding this news conference by Japanese reporters clamoring to get to him after his sensational speech in Seoul yesterday. He had been slated to give an exclusive to one commercial T-V network while he was here. 2003.08.01

====================

DPRK-Nuke Talks (Kyodo) Just in case you had any doubts, DPRK now says the six-way talks were its idea. Talk about a face-saving way to accept the U-S demands. 2003.08.01

====================

U-S on DPRK Bolton tells reporters in Tokyo he is cautiously optimistic about multi-lat talks... More later...   2003.08.01

====================

DPRK to Allow Japan, Others to Sit at the Table (Bloomberg) U-S Undersecretary of State Bolton is holding a news conference  in Tokyo now. 2003.08.01

====================

DPRK to Allow Japan, Others to Sit at the Table (Kyodo) Further Tokyo-based developments expected later in the day regarding DPRK issues.   2003.08.01

====================

DPRK to Allow Japan, Others to Sit at the Table (Reuters) Prediction: If these talks are actually held, the DPRK will concede nothing. Kim will go to the brink with the intent to extract a compromise or concessions from the other nations or force a coalition of US, South Korea and Japan to agree to attack North Korea. Seoul, especially and Tokyo do not want war. The U.S. State Department also resists going down that path. Ironically, the odds are in Kim Jong Il's favor right now and he may ultimately get what he wants: a pact with Washington in which Pyongyang only gives up its illegal nuke weapons program in exchange for a U-S pledge not to try to topple the Kim regime. ______________________________ 2003.08.01

====================

© Copyright 2006 The Taisho Cable & Wireless Company.