North Korea agrees to end Nuclear program

the 6 nation talks did indeed do it's intended job thanks in great part to the Bush Administration

remember all those naysayers who wanted one on one talks between the US and North Korea?....and all those saying we were not putting enough emphasis on the North Korean situation when we first embarked on our liberation of Iraq and that the Bush Admin couldn't handle both situations simultaneously?

Democrats.....what silly people

 

North Korea has agreed to this before. Talk is cheap. They are likely stalling for time and trying to placate China to get immediate relief. next year may be a different matter. The North Koreans cannot be trusted.

When the UN inspectors go back in and account for every gram of enriched uranium and plutonium, then I might believe it.

 

Sure I did, when they said that in 1991. They then spent 10 years destroying WMD's.

I also believed them in 2002 when they said that the WMD's had been destroyed. Most of the UNSCOM inspectors were British and American and our own chief inspector Scott Ritter warned us that no further WMD's would be found. That warning may have been disbelieved by you, but not by me.

North Korea agreed to abandon weapons production in the 90's and UN inspectors sealed all of the fissile materials for several years. Then the North Koreans unilaterally broke that agreement, broke the UN seals and restarted weapons manufacture. While the inspectors were there, no weapons were produced. Any agreement that doesn't include on-site inspection will not hold water.

Even then the North Koreans are likely to break it the next time they want some attention. The only way to end this cycle is to remove all fissile materials from Korea . . . and they will fight before they let that happen.