13.10.2009, 16:17
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Zitat:North Korea begins 'Plan C'
By Kim Myong Chol
"History demonstrates that developing China-North Korea relations are in keeping with the fundamental interests and shared wishes of both countries' peoples. It also benefits the protection of regional peace and stability."
- Chinese President Hu Jintao
"Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was at the behest of the late president Kim Il-sung. The hostile relations between the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] and the US should be turned into peaceful ones through bilateral talks."
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
TOKYO - High-profile visits to Pyongyang by two foreign leaders - former United States president Bill Clinton in early August and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao this month - have gone a long way towards dramatizing the senselessness of the much-publicized United Nations sanctions on North Korea. They have also helped
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to consider switching gears to a "Plan C" as a permanent nuclear power.
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Plan C envisages the US belatedly learning to live in peace with a nuclear-armed North Korea and putting to rest scores of years of hostility between the two countries through signing a peace treaty and establishing full diplomatic ties. It also involves recognition of the DPRK's responsible behavior as a nuclear power and desire to join the US in its efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament - major US allies such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands Canada and Australia already have diplomatic relations with the DPRK.
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