{news} Fw: USGP-INT South Korean Green comments on nuke test in the north

[Justine McCabe]

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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: USGP-INT South Korean Green comments on nuke test in the north
> and Australian Green Senator Bob Brown's statement on the same
>
> http://www.bobbrown.org.au/600_media_sub.php?deptItemID=2125
>
> Brown meets N Korea ambassador and condemns nuclear test
>
> 10th Oct 06
>
>
> Greens Leader Bob Brown and Greens nuclear spokesperson Christine Milne 
> met
> the ambassador for North Korea, Chon Jae Hong, at 4pm today.
> Senator Brown told the ambassador that the Greens utterly condemn
> yesterday's nuclear test and that North Korea’s action has made the 
> region
> and the world a more dangerous place.
>
> Senator Brown backed the Howard government's decision to keep open the
> dialogue with North Korea.
>
> “I asked the ambassador to explain his government’s actions. He said 
> North
> Korea felt vulnerable to a pre-emptive nuclear strike and took its action
> in response to:
>
>    * The Bush administration’s abandonment of the arrangement between the
> Clinton administration and North Korea;
>    * President Bush’s declaring North Korea “evil” and calling for 
> regime
> change; and
>    * There being 1000 American nuclear weapons deployed in the region
> coupled with the potential for a pre-emptive strike.”
>
>
> Senator Brown made the Greens’global opposition to the development of
> nuclear weapons clear and said North Korea's actions encouraged an Asian
> nuclear arms race.  Noting the poverty of many North Koreans, he 
> reiterated
> the Greens policy that the money spent on armaments should go to
> alleviating poverty in North Korea and around the world.
>
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