Some sanity has unbelievably returned to the United States’ North Korea policy:

The U.S. government decided to impose three new conditions for removing North Korea from Washington`s list of state sponsors of terrorism, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Saturday.

The new conditions are in addition to the current U.S requirement that North Korea completes the disablement of its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. According to the new demand, Pyongyang must reveal the amount of plutonium it has extracted; the details of its uranium enrichment program; and its alleged transfer of nuclear technology and materials to other countries such as Syria, the sources said.

It is now likely that North Korea will not be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism anytime soon, since it is unlikely that the country will accept all four conditions, the sources said. [Donga Ilbo]

It looks like North Korea will not be coming off the state sponsored terrorism list any time soon since they have no intention of meeting these demands.  It will be interesting to see how the State Department will make excuses for North Korea when they don’t meet the demands especially with the news that North Korea moved the centrifuges they bought from Pakistan to Syria. 

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