2006-10-10 15:46:28 · 8 answers · asked by jungle_jape 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bilateral talks are an agreement between Korea and the US.
The US is in favor of six party talks, so that the agreement would be between Korea, the US and four other countries.
The reason Korea wants bilateral talks, is that they fully intend to break any agreement that they make, and so they'd rather break an agreement with just the US, as the rest of the world doesn't really mind countries lying to the US.
However if they make an agreement with the US and four other countries, breaking it would have serious international repercussions.
2006-10-10 15:52:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If bilateral talks - just between US & N Korea - were entered into
we would be in the same black hole that Clinton fell into when N Korea tricked him. We know from experience that it will not work. An added benefit to N Korea is that without China to agree to any
pact, they could attack for N Korea.
2006-10-10 23:33:40 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ricky T did a great job explaining.
A parable would be when a child wants 'Mom' to allow them to drive the family car ... and then when 'Mom' says 'No' then the kid can play off 'Dad' and twist words to manipulate a situation & get to drive.
Usually when the child has to talk to 'Mom', 'Dad', 'Big Brother', 'Uncle', 'Aunt', and 'Grand-pa' to drive the car... well the chances of the kid manipulating drops dramatically. N. Korea is like a kid throwing a temper-tantrum ... a dangerious kid ... but still there is little logic to miff off their surrounding countries to get attention from the USA. When all of these countries get together, then there's more people to disaplin wronful actions.
Reality is that China, S. Korea, Japan, India have greater stakes than the USA does. This testing can prompt Earth quacks that cause Tsunami's in their area of Earth. Plus, the bad relations N. Korea has with Japan & S. Korea is historical.
2006-10-11 12:01:13 · answer #3 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They want delays. They really don't want to talk. Bilateral talks for 6 years under Clinton wasn't successful. Why don't they want to sit at the table with their neighbors? Why? Because of more international pressure.
The commies can't be trusted.
2006-10-10 23:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have had bilateral talks with the US,even during this round of negotiation(WHICH THEY WALKED AWAY FROM THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO,WHILST HAVING PRIVATE FACE TO FACE TALKS WITH THE AMERICAN UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR ASIAN AFFAIRS) .They had an agreement with the former US administration.They have an agreement with the South Korean Government,all of which they have broken.This is an administration that will hang on to power,does not care anything about its people,and knows that it can cause immense trouble in the world with or without WMD,and for the conspiracy theorists without OIL.......
2006-10-10 22:59:51 · answer #5 · answered by sunshine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most common sense way to explain what North Korea wants is to : "Let's have the media report to the world we WANT friendship and love talks so we can do as we please while all peaceniks and liberals blame Bush and our poor citizens in North Korea starve. And while everyone is watching to see what Washington DC is going to do - we can sale nuclear weapons to Iran who will blow the world apart but leave us alone."
Why ignore them - because some of us can see it is only a smokescreen stall for time.
2006-10-10 23:01:56 · answer #6 · answered by Akkita 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The USA does not want to speak alone to the Koreans. They want witnesses to what is said. Remember how they promised the Clinton administration that they would not pursue nukes all the while lying through their teeth.
2006-10-10 22:56:49 · answer #7 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because going to war makes more sense to bush....
2006-10-10 22:50:34 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋