As just breaking news reports, North Korea has offered to allow United Nations nuclear inspectors to enter the country for the first time in more than four years.
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The reason for optimism is that the US, which has been holding up peninsular progress for years, seems to have finally got serious. But you can’t be sure. We were here a decade ago and the US reneged on its part of the deal. The money in Macau is a test of US commitment and North Korea is being really smart to wait till its returned (with interest?).
Um, no, the U.S. did not “renege” on its part of the deal, N.K. continued to pursue nuclear arms while saying it was abiding by the Agreed Framework of 1994. This making a deal and finding a pretext to get out of it is a very old game and the North Koreans are adept at it. Unfortunately, the U.S. keeps playing along — it has no “commitments” to N.K.
N.K. is a military dictatorship that starves and slaughters its own people, and the only “peninsular progress” will happen when the regime goes away.
“The reason for optimism is that the US, which has been holding up peninsular progress for years, seems to have finally got serious.”
“The money in Macau is a test of US commitment”
Of course, the Norks have been willing partners for progress on the peninsula all along. It’s the US that has reneged on all deals and commitments. Yes, please, I want to become a card carrying member of Hanchonryon, too.