NK's word and $0.75 will get you a bag of animal crackers.

Hopefully the agreement was written on toilet paper so there ends up being some use for it.

Just waiting for a thumbs-up from Jimmy Carter.

Hasn't Iran said basically the same thing?
A couple of times?

When I woke up this morning and went to FoxNews.com, the following headline about this story gave me a bit of a start:

"North Korea Agrees to Drop Nukes."

I never thought I'd say this but Jimmah's been doing something constructive lately.

Yeah, right, Ace. I saw this last night and just rolled my eyes. This is nothing more than their usual shit.

"Soooooo ronery...."

I didn't get past the first two comments - but they just about sum up how I feel.

Typical double-speak - re-read what they actually said. It doesn't commit them to anything with a timeline - ergo, it's useless.

And, just because no one's said it yet -

El Baradei can go stick a claw hammer up his ass. Creepy motherfucker.

Crazy bastards are running some kind of scam.

If this had happened when Clinton was President, the...

Oh ,yeah, it did.

You're breaking my balls Hans, you're breaking my balls.

But what about the Film Actors Guild???

It didn't last long. Little bastard's already double crossing us.
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The only thing funnier than State taking this Barnumesque folly seriously, was the gushing by the various reporters: "Gee Whiz! Izzn't it great? Who'd a thunk. Wow, these guys have really changed." Hope spring eternal? Or historical dyslexia?

Er, right. Effin' 'tards.

File under the "surprising exactly no one" category:

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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea said Tuesday it would begin dismantling its nuclear program only if the United States provides a light-water reactor for civilian power.

The demand could threaten a day-old agreement between North Korea and the five nations involved in nuclear disarmament talks.

"Without this physical guarantee of the (light-water reactor), our position is not to even dream of us giving up our nuclear deterrence," the official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry as saying.

Business Week says it's Bill Clinton's plan -- the same one Bushco trashed.

So much for negotiating from a position of power. Looks like the lessons other nations are drawing from the US involvement in Iraq are, ah, not what the neocons had in mind.

Well that didn't take long for the NK to begin fucking with the process, again.

Still, can we promise to help them with a nuke plant once we have verified that they've totally destroyed all re-processing/enriching facilities as well as all current warheads and warhead materials? I mean like hell will freeze over first before the current NK regime meets all those tests and it might get them to decommission most of their current nukes and nuke materials before we start the whole fucking process over again.

One would expect that the leftist MSM would have reacted *very* skeptically to a Bushco claim along these lines. Instead the press uncritically accepted the assertion of the joint statement because they were looking forward to needling the Bush administration on Iraq; viz: "See, if you'd only *negotiate* with Saddam instead of being so damned eager to invade, we could have gotten him to give up any WMDs without this *icky, awful war!*"

Kevin Drum's summary of the NYT article:

The North Koreans "drove a tough bargain." The Chinese told us to sign the agreement or "they would go to the press." Bush wasn't happy, but since he was bogged down with other problems he grabbed at the chance to "forestall, at least for now, a confrontation."

Yep, that's some steely negotiating. After all, the North Koreans got nothing out of this deal except for every single thing they've ever asked for.

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