N.Korea Talks Scrapped: Japan Sends Ships
Jacob Cherian - All Headline News Staff Writer Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - Though North Korea asked for talks with the U.S. concerning missile testing, President Bush has rejected the offer. The United States said that threats are not a way of resolving conflict. U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said, "You don't normally engage in conversations by threatening to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. 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." The AP reports that Japan has send naval ships and patrol planes to N.Korea to monitor developments on a possible launch of a missile that could reach the United States. President Bush at a meeting in Austria with European Union leaders said that N. Korea would face further isolation if it were to go ahead with missile tests. Bush added, "It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes who have announced they have nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world." On Wednesday, Han Song Ryol, deputy chief of North Korea's mission to the UN had said that his government was seeking direct talks with the U.S. to resolve the nuclear weapons conflict. State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said that direct talks with N. Korea are "not in the cards," according to Associated Press. Ereli told repo |
