S-Kórea hafnar viðræðum!

Enn segir Mogginn bara hálfsannleikann í málinu eða ennþá minna en það. Suður-Kóreumenn höfnuðu þegar í stað tillögum Kínverja um viðræður og sögðu þær ekki tímabærar.

Þá herma nýjustu fréttir að íbúar eyjarinnar Yeonpyeong hafi verið fyrirskipað að yfirgefa hana. Ef það er rétt þá er nokkuð ljóst að nú eigi að sverfa til stáls. Bandaríkjamenn og S-Kórea eru að sýna vöðvana og hefja í dag fjögurra daga heræfingar í Gula hafinu. Þar er fremst í flokki flugmóðurskipið USS George Washington sem þykir það flottasta og fullkomnasta sem til er í dag.

Enn ítreka Bandaríkjamenn að ekki sé verið að æfa innrás í Kína, en segja ekkert um það hvort verið sé að æfa innrás í N-Kóreu - eða hvort ætlunin sé að hefna dauða fjögurra Suður-Kóreumanna hundraðfalt eða þúsundfalt eins og einn S-Kóreanskur hershöfðingi orðaði það svo smekklega við útför hinna látnu.

Kína vill viðræður um N-Kóreu

Athugasemdir

[Brynjar Björnsson (IP-tala skráð) 28.11.2010 kl. 13:18]

"South Korea's Yonhap news agency said President Lee Myung-bak had told visiting senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Dai Bingguo that Seoul was not interested in the early resumption of *the six-party nuclear talks themselves*, as it was more urgent to deal with Pyongyang's belligerence." -BBC

"This week's bombardment from their volatile northern neighbours has left South Koreans tired of turning the other cheek, reports Andrew Gilligan in Incheon" - The Telegraph

""A series of complicated factors have recently emerged on the Korean Peninsula. The international community, particularly members of the Six-Party Talks, is deeply concerned," said Wu. [...] Wu said the proposed consultations did not mean the resumption of the Six-Party Talks, but he hoped they could "help create conditions" for the resumption of the talks. The talks, launched in 2003, stalled when *the DPRK quit in April 2009*.

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met with President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday in Seoul.

Stressing the situation on the peninsula was worrisome, the two sides agreed the parties concerned should make joint efforts to engage in serious contact and dialogue to ease tensions and safeguard overall peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and northeast Asia." - Xinhua

"The bombardment of the island was the first attack on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War, and it enraged the South Koreans far more than previous provocations by the North, including its *nuclear weapons tests* and the sinking in March of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors. Despite the findings of an international investigation, North Korea denies responsibility for the sinking." - New York Times

"The reaction was seen as a de facto rejection of Beijing's proposal that the chief delegates from the six nations meet in early December to discuss tensions on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea's deadly artillery strike on a South Korean island.

"Our government will take note of China's proposal," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"But holding a six-party chief delegates' meeting should be studied very carefully considering" North Korea's series of provocations "caused negative effects" on efforts to create the right conditions to resume the talks that involve the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the U.S., it said.

Before restarting the talks, the right conditions should be created first so that the negotiations can make substantial progress, the ministry said, referring to South Korea's long-running demand that North Korea take concrete steps demonstrating its *denuclearization commitments*." - Yonhap News Agency

[Torfi Stefánsson (IP-tala skráð) 28.11.2010 kl. 15:08]

Þetta staðfestir auðvitað það sem ég sagði. Suður-Kórea neitar að hefja aftur hinar svokölluðu sex ríkja viðræður (og setur skilyrði fyrir því að þeim verði haldið áfram af þeirra hálfu):

"The reaction was seen as a de facto rejection of Beijing's proposal that the chief delegates from the six nations meet in early December to discuss tensions on the Korean Peninsula" ...

"Before restarting the talks, the right conditions should be created first so that the negotiations can make substantial progress".