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Brown Back

Steven Aftergood passes along a little humor from the NORKs, via Xinhua News Agency:

“DPRK Slams U.S. Senator’s Hardline Remarks” — Xinhua headline
Xinhua

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 T09:26:37Z

PYONGYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday slammed U.S. Senator Brown Back for his remarks that Washington should not soften its policy on Pyongyang.

The DPRK’s remarks came after Senator Back presented a bill, claiming that Washington should not delist the DPRK as a “sponsor of terrorism” and lift the application of the “Trading with the Enemy Act.”

“Such conservative hardliners as Back calculate they can throw a hurdle in the way of the process of the six-party talks (on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue) and the DPRK-U.S. relations,” said the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

“Nothing is, however, more foolish than this,” the agency said.
“With no desperate effort can the U.S. conservative hardliners stem the trend of the times towards detente over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula,” it added.

(Description of Source: Beijing Xinhua in English — China’s official
news service for English-language audiences (New China News Agency))

Seriously, Chris Hill has to work with these guys. VOTE CHRIS HILL AS ARMS CONTROL PERSON OF THE YEAR!

Jeffrey Lewis

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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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