Archive for the 'Election 2008' Category
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
According to CNN:
The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
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McCormack said the United States and North Korea had reached agreement “on an number of important verification measures” of North Korea’s nuclear program.
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“Every element of verification that we sought is included [...]
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
John McCain’s pick for vice-president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, doesn’t have a clear record on North Korea policy that I can find. However, as GI Korea points out, she is well aware of South Korea-U.S. ties having proclaimed Korea-Alaska Friendship Day.
As governor, Palin is the head of the state’s National Guard and has been [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
OFK has a telling post (w/video) on Joe Biden’s North Korea policy. It’s hard to do much of a related post on Obama since he hasn’t even completed one term in the senate and so has a thin record. See all Election 2008 posts.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
This week Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized the Bush administration for not engaging in diplomacy with North Korea between 2002-2005. Said Obama:
“While the United States was refusing to talk with North Korea, the reclusive regime developed eight units of nuclear weapons… North Korea secured nuclear materials (plutonium) that can make eight to 10 [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Update: Probably it would have been better to get these answers *before* announcing plans to delist North Korea and remove other trade barriers, as that is what the agreements actually called for:
North Korea did not answer U.S. suspicions of enriching uranium and proliferating technology when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans this [...]
Filed under: Axis of Evil, Diplomacy, Election 2008, Engagement, History, Kim Jong-il, Korean Politics, Nuclear Proliferation, Six-Party Talks, WMD | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The Chosun Shinbo (조선신보, also Romanized as Chosun Sinbo), a newspaper in Japan controlled by the North Korean organization Chosun Soren (a.k.a the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, 재일본 조선인 총련합회), has endorsed Barack Obama over John McCain in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections. This is not to be confused with American-style endorsements [...]
Filed under: Election 2008, Korean Politics, North Korea | 19 Comments »
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Today my North Korea news aggregator picked up a piece by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on John McCain’s North Korea policy, per his comments in the Asia Wall Street Journal. The article had a spiffy title, “Today’s McCain Myth: John McCain would produce results with North Korea.”
John McCain writes that “American leadership is also [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
While South Koreans aren’t giddy about he second North-South summit in Pyongyang, as they were in 2000, the majority do support the meeting, according to a recent poll:
Do you support or oppose the upcoming summit with North Korea?
Support 73.9%
Oppose 22.6%
Which topic should be at the top of the agenda during the summit?
Denuclearization 34.1%
Economic cooperation 20.8%
Reunification [...]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
A representative from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) sent a link to their new presidential campaign issue tracker that, “outlines the stances of each 2008 presidential candidate on North Korea.” You can find it at: The Candidates on North Korea Policy
Perhaps because it’s only June of 2007, I haven’t been paying too much attention [...]
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