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Monday, September 19, 2005

N. Korea pact potentially great news

They must have John Bolton in a straitjacket over at the U.N. to get this:

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea promised to give up its nuclear weapons program Monday, defusing a high-stakes crisis, but sceptics said the deal hammered out in Beijing was long on words and short of action.
South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China -- the other players in the six-party talks -- in exchange expressed a willingness to provide oil, energy aid and security guarantees.
Washington and Tokyo agreed to normalise ties with the impoverished and diplomatically isolated North, which pledged to rejoin the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Let's see if they actually readmit the IAEA inspectors and hand over some actual warheads.

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