I’m shocked, North Korea missing an agreed upon deadline?  Who would have thought that?:

North Korea may miss the year-end deadline under an international disarmament deal to provide a full accounting of its nuclear weapons program, South Korea‘s foreign minister indicated on Thursday.

"We are aiming for the initial end of the year deadline, but we may need to be a little more flexible," Song Min-soon said in a speech to a business chamber in Seoul, according to a spokesman for his ministry.

Isolated North Korea agreed with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States to make the nuclear declaration and disable its ageing nuclear arms complex in exchange for aid and an end to the cold shoulder it receives from most of the world.  [Reuters]

"Need to be a little more flexible" how many times have we heard that line before from the South Korean government?  That line ranks right up there with "You need to understand our special situation" as the most over used line from the South Korean government that people unfamiliar with issues on the Korean peninsula continue to fall for every time.