The big news today was that North Korea agreed to disclose and disable all their nuclear facilities and for some reason everyone is excited about this. Why am I not excited and jumping with joy that peace is about to break out on the Korean peninsula? Well because we have been here before just this past February when North Korea promised the same thing that they are promising now. They then made new demands which the US met and the North Koreans have yet to meet their side of the agreement anyway.
Now we are being told that the North Koreans are going to disclose all their nuclear facilities again and what did the US give the North Koreans this time for their promise to do something they had already promised to do? Well this:
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that the United States has decided to remove the communist country from its list of terror-sponsoring nations and make political and economic measures for "compensation," such as lifting a trade ban.
The decision was made at a working-level meeting between the two nations in Geneva over the weekend, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the North’s Korean Central News Agency.
"As a consequence, a foundation for making progress in the next round of six-party talks (on the North’s nuclear ambitions) was paved, the spokesman said. [Yonhap]
The North Koreans have never atoned for their various terrorist attacks like Libya did and yet the Bush administration is going to reward them with removing them from the state sponsored terrorism list. They are agreeing to do this as an incentive to do something the North Koreans have been promising to do for the last thirteen years stretching all the way back to 1994 when the first Agreed Framework was signed during the Clinton Administration.
The US governments desperation to perpetuate the "Myth of Progress" is truly astounding. I really hope the "Six Party Charade" and the sell out of a sound North Korea policy is worth the setting of conditions to bomb Iran.
Make sure to read OFK’s take on this.
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10:33 pm on September 3rd, 2007 1
Now that Corea is in bed with the Taliban, we ought to just remove the word “North” from the list.
10:37 pm on September 3rd, 2007 2
[...] has been reported widely in the press and in several blogs, that after weekend talks in Geneva, North Korea stated publicly that the United States has agreed [...]
1:24 am on September 4th, 2007 3
North Korea off the Terrorist List? Waiting for U.S. Confirmation…
North Korea is making a significant claim:
North Korea’s foreign ministry said Monday that the United States has decided to remove the communist state from the US list of states sponsoring terrorism.
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“Both sides discussed the issue …
1:56 am on September 5th, 2007 4
12:12 pm on October 3rd, 2008 5