U.S. Govt: Years of negotiations with North Korea over nuclear weapons a complete failure (John Kerry, Hugo Chavez)

[Little-Acorn]

The U.S. Government announced to day that it is likely that North Koreas has succeeded in developing a nuclear weapon small enough to mount on a ballistic missile.

After years of insistence on "negotiating" as a viable alternative to preventing the North Korean regime from getting nukes, this admission is a frank acknowledgement that such tactics have been a complete failure.

Today, on the heels of the announcement that untold years of negotiations had produced nothing, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the United States' new strategy:

The United States and its allies will open a new round of negotiations to try to prevent North Korea from carrying tests of missile and nuclear weapons.

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North Korea Can Put A Nuke on a Missile, U.S. Intelligence Agency Believes - ABC News

North Korea Can Put A Nuke on a Missile, U.S. Intelligence Agency Believes

The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded with "moderate confidence" that North Korea might have a nuclear weapon that's small enough to be placed on a ballistic missile. But the DIA also says that if that is the case, the reliability of the missile would be low.

The alarming assessment came as North Korea has been issuing threats that range from testing a new missile to nuclear war against the U.S. and South Korea.

It was made public near the end of a House Armed Services Committee in which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey were testifying about the proposed Pentagon budget.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., asked Dempsey if he agreed with a recent classified DIA report that contained an unclassified section that said, "DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles. However, the reliability will be low." Dempsey eventually admitted he had not seen this report so he couldn't answer the congressman's question.

[Redraven]

"...if that is the case, the reliability of the missile would be low."

Please define "low reliability", DIA.
One chance in ten?
That is too good of a chance we will get bombed.
One chance in 100?
Still to good a chance for me to feel good about it.
One in a thousand?
Now I'm feeling a little better, but not much.
the point? Any Washington analyst saying "low reliability" is not a confidence builder!

[Little-Acorn]

For how many years, did we rely on these "negotiations" as the way to keep North Korea from getting The Bomb?

North Korea now has The Bomb. And they got it, about as quickly as if we had done nothing at all.

Next time we start thinking that negotiations will prevent the next whacko regime (Iran, Muslim Brotherhood's Egypt, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela etc.) from getting their own nukes, will we remember what happened this time?

See the fourth line of the OP.

[Mathguy]

When Jimmy Carter got his nobel peace prize, the announcement credited him with negotiating the nuclear disarmament of NK.

If you go looking for it now, it's all been sanitized and it doesn't mention that "acheivment".

Frankly, he deserved it for the Egypt-Israel peace deal....it's just funny to watch the nobel peace committee chuck those things out in bad decision after bad decision.