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Responding to a question about an American man who has been kidnapped by North Korea and reportedly given 15 years hard labor, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Thursday raised the prospect of talks with Kim Jong-Un.
Q    The North Koreans have sentenced an American man to 15 years hard labor.  Does the U.S. see this as an attempt adventure travel florida by the North Koreans to get some kind of high-profile visit or start any kind of talks with the U.S.?
MR. CARNEY:  Well, we ve seen those reports, Julie, and we re working with our protecting power, the Embassy of Sweden in Pyongyang, to confirm them.  We don't have any further information to share with you.
Separate from that issue, the issue of talks we have made clear that there is a path open to the North Koreans that would allow for negotiations, but it is dependent upon the North Koreans demonstrating a willingness to live up to their international obligations in keeping with the 2005 September 2005 joint statement of the six-party talks.  And if they choose that path, then we and other members of that of the six-party talks are absolutely willing to have discussions with the North Koreans.
But thus far, as you know, they have flouted their obligations, engaged in provocative actions and rhetoric that brings them no closer to a situation where they can improve the lot of the North Korean people or reenter the community of nations.
Carney adventure travel florida sought to divide the imprisonment from the offer of talks with the phrase separate from that issue. But offering talks to the North Koreans as part of a response to a question about the kidnapping is a dangerous mistake that may well signal to Kim that the United States is responding to his provocative action with a concession.
North Korean leaders have over the years routinely saber rattled adventure travel florida and even kidnapped foreigners in the hope of getting concessions from the West. As part of the most recent episode, Kim has aslo been threatening to launch missiles.
There are Americans being held in custody by hostile nations all over the world, justifiedly or not. One American held in NoKo (or anywhere) shouldn t change our whole foreign policy toward a country that has vowed to destroy us.
So who in their right mind would want to go into NK as a tourist?? Even as a tour director, and granted he has been visiting NK over the past 5 years, there is a time and place for everything. Here we are going through the motions for someone who did not heed the State Dept warning on travel adventure travel florida to the NK region, at a time when Little Man is throwing a tantrum. In reading all the press releases the State Dept is telling the NK that they are going Full Stop in demanding the release of this idiot. Gee, another mess Hillary left for someone else to clean up. Maybe we could trade Blarney (Carney) for the tour guide?? adventure travel florida Is the State Dept going to throw their own tantrum?
No caving to NK.. we go through this time and time again with visitors adventure travel florida to other foreign countries. They know the risks and yet they go anyway. And when they get in trouble they expect immediate bailout.