Powell Says U.S. Not Trying to Bring Down North Korean Government

[NNN0LHI]

Didn't Powell say the same thing about Iraq right before the US invaded them?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAPLJBPXID.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is committed to finding a diplomatic answer to the North Korean problem and, despite harsh rhetoric by high U.S. officials, is not trying to end communist leader Kim Jong Il's rule, Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Upcoming six-way talks over North Korea's nuclear ambitions can allay the North's suspicions about a possible U.S. invasion without a nonaggression pact between the two countries as Kim's government has demanded, said Powell.

In an interview with selected U.S. media outlets, Powell was asked about Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's comment in early summer that Kim's administration was "teetering on the edge of economic collapse." Wolfowitz said that could be used as "a major point of leverage" against Kim.

"I don't have a basis for saying there is an imminent collapse," Powell said in the interview, which the State Department made public Sunday.

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[FatbackSlim]

1. Collapse

If we aren't trying to topple that government, we certainly should be! That's the best thing that could happen for the 22 million people trapped there.

[depakid]

4. And how would you propose to do that, fatback

starve 'm out. Nuke 'm

[FatbackSlim]

6. Agitprop

I suspect it could be done without firing a shot. I don't know if we're beaming in Voice of America or something similar from South Korea, but we should if we aren't; let the people there know what they're missing. There are probably more direct ways to destabilize them, using infiltrators from the South; the North has been playing that game for fifty years.

I really do think it would take just a teensy tiny push for them to go over the edge...but without that push, they seem to be able to go on indefinitely. I would have thought the famine of the last few years would have incited a revolution, but obviously not. It's going to take something from the outside.

[bemildred]

2. We are not a crook.

[depakid]

3. Oh, and if we were, Powell would be all over the media crowing about it!

Who writes thses stupid Bylines, anyway? Unpaid interns? Probably

[meti57b]

5. does anyone trust the bush administration's ability to handle

this situation? anyone? anyone? anyone?

[The Zanti Regent]

7. Another lie from Powell

THis worthless dog turd has lied so many times about so many things, he is even MORE of a disgrace than Bush.

Colin Powell is the most incompetent asshole to ever be Secretary of State.