{"id":3289,"date":"2002-12-30T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2002-12-30T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T15:04:48","slug":"damned_if_you_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/damned_if_you_d.html","title":{"rendered":"Damned if you do …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US is being accused of reckless multi<\/i>lateralism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea (news – web sites) said Tuesday it is only the United States that can solve the dispute of its nuclear weapons, warning Washington that internationalizing the issue would bring “uncontrollable catastrophe.”
\n“There is no need for the third party to meddle in the nuclear issue on the peninsula. The issue should be settled between the DPRK (North Korea) and the U.S., the parties responsible for it,” said the North’s ruling-party newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun.
\n“If the U.S. persistently tries to internationalize the pending issue between the DPRK and the U.S. in a bid to flee from its responsibility, it will push the situation to an uncontrollable catastrophe,” it said.<\/p>\n

Or, as Glenn Reynolds put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Those damned cowboy Americans, always trying to round up a posse and bring the whole community into dealing with wrongdoers, instead of doing things one-to-one like civilized people. . . .<\/p>\n

I’m waiting on the Germans and French to weigh in on this one.<\/p>\n

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The US is being accused of reckless multilateralism. 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