Norks get it backwards at start of talks

AP/Houston Chronicle:

North Korea defiantly declared itself a nuclear power today at the start of the first full international arms talks since its nuclear test and threatened to increase its nuclear deterrent if its demands were not met.

Reiterating those demands in its opening speech, the North said the United Nations must lift the sanctions imposed on the communist nation for its Oct. 9 nuclear test. It also said the United States must remove the financial restrictions that led the North to break off the six-nation nuclear negotiations 13 months ago.

The North also said it wants a nuclear reactor constructed for it and help covering its energy needs until the reactor is completed, according to a summary of the speech released by one of the delegations involved. Five nations are trying to persuade the North to abandon nuclear weapons — the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.

The North said that now that it is a nuclear power, it should be treated on equal footing with the U.S. It warned that if its demands aren't met, it would increase its nuclear deterrent, according to the summary.

The U.S. offered in its opening comments to normalize relations with Pyongyang, but only after it halted its nuclear program.

A South Korean official who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the talks said the North was entering the negotiations with a maximum of conditions for success.

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In non diplomatic language, they entered without one sane idea or suggestion. All the things they are complaining about are the results of their nuke program which they insist on not only keeping, but they want everyone else to help them with their idiotic objectives. This is the Reuters version of the story. The Nor intransigence defies logic or reason. It is a result of its insulation from reality and the fantasy world surrounding its despotic rulers. For those Democrats who want the US to enter into direct negotiations with the Norks--which of items on this ridiculous wish list are you prepared to give them in return for an illusory promise?

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