One Less In The Axis Of Evil?

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Whatcha think?

The news from Geneva over the week-end was excellent if you are an optimist, interesting if you are a realist and unimpressive if you are a pessimist. North Korea's agreement to "provide a full declaration of all (its) nuclear programmes" and the disablement of these "nuclear programmes by the end of this year", according to the US Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, is, on the face of it, the most encouraging breakthrough in what has long been a US-North Korean stalemate.

We have been here before, of course. North Korea has a history of declaring one thing and doing what is diametrically opposed to that declaration. The saga of its nuclear facilities is a long-running one. In 2005, during negotiations with the United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia, it had agreed to abandon its nuclear programme only to test a nuclear explosive a year later.

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**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

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North Korea has a history of declaring one thing and doing what is diametrically opposed to that declaration

That's the catch 22. I find it hard to believe N.Korea is going to lay all their cards on the table at once.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Again, I agree there is more to this than they report. What did the west promise NK?

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

It sounds like N.Korea is being rewarded for being a rogue country. Laughing

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

More I think about it, NK will remain on the list, because they cannot be rewarded for standing up to the US.

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

Well, if they remain on the list despite all the hoops they jump through, what would be the point of all the cooperation?

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Exactly, a Bush foreign policy policy.