There is a Devil in Our Soup

There is a Devil in Our Soup

Far from a rational approach to the spread of nuclear weapons America in recent years has tiptoed around this issue. With extreme poor judgment the Obama Administration sanctioned Iran’s nuclear program with financial incentives beyond the ken of most people. Rogue states live in the shadows spreading their venom whenever and wherever they can. More recently North Korea has been testing missiles over inhabited territories which have the potential to carry the ultimate bombs. Nuclear armed rogue nations will use these weapons. It is just a matter of time. Extensive diplomacy continually fails when hate filled minds are the end receptors of these dialogues. To stop these Devils from releasing their venoms will require  antidotes more severe than most would care to envision. What do you believe is the correct approach to challenge this evil?

Kim Gets the Dough

Cross posted from DeMediacratic Nation:

North Korea has finally received the $25 million frozen in Macao’s Banco Delta Asia that it “demanded” prior to its following through on the February 13^th agreement to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear plant.

There should still remain concerns as it is unlikely North Korea will discontinue its illegal activities, such as counterfeiting money and cigarettes, drug traffic and illegal weapons sales, as it has proved so lucrative. It will likely (hopefully) continue to have banking difficulties based upon the U.S. Treasury working group Illicit Activities Initiative, which tracked the North’s illegal activities. It was this investigation that led to the U.S. Treasury finding Macao’s Banco Delta Asia a “primary money laundering concern.” No international banking member wants to be labeled as such, so Kim will have a tough time of things.

The U.N.s IAEA will now meet with North Korea to discuss “a timetable for shutting down the reactor and technical details of monitoring and verification.” The IAEA and the North “have bickered over how much access the agency should have to nuclear facilities and data in the isolated country” ever since the revelation of the North’s illicit nuclear weapons program. So, they will negotiate to discuss, talk, and agree about discussing, talking and agreeing so to speak…make sense? That’s U.N. diplo-speak at its finest.

Further “North Korea said it would use the released money ‘“for improving the standard of people’s living and humanitarian purposes,”’ as the United States demanded.” Uhn huhn…ok.