N Korea says US must change policy

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ABOUT-TURN: North Korea is suddenly threatening to boost its nuclear deterrent, in contrast to what it said during six-nation talks, but the US says this is empty rhetoric

REUTERS , TAIPEI
Friday, Mar 12, 2004,Page 5

North Korea dismissed any idea it wanted US President George W. Bush to lose November's US presidential election, saying yesterday the key for the winner -- Democrat or Republican -- would be to change policy towards Pyongyang.

A day earlier, the secretive communist state threatened to boost the nuclear deterrent it says it has and blamed the US stance in recent six-party talks for forcing its hand. Washington dismissed the apparently tougher line from Pyongyang as rhetoric.

Analysts say little progress on curbing North Korea's nuclear programs was now likely before the US presidential elections in November, thus giving Pyongyang more time to try to develop a nuclear capability.

Pyongyang denied it could be stalling in six-way talks over its nuclear ambitions to see whether a more amenable Democratic US president is elected, saying it did not care which party's candidate triumphed in the US presidential election.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/03/12/2003102132

Before or after we put George aWol Bush in prison?

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1. We can't stop them without nuclear war

But we don't have to deal with them, trade with them or allow anyone who does business with us trade with them.