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Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:53 am

North Korea Agrees to End Nuke Program

BEIJING — North Korea agreed Tuesday after arduous talks to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb.

The deal marks the first concrete plan for disarmament in more than three years of six-nation negotiations, and could potentially herald a new era of cooperation in the region with the North's longtime foes — the United States and Japan — also agreeing to discuss normalizing relations with Pyongyang.

Under the deal, the North will receive initial aid equal to 50,000 tons heavy fuel oil within 60 days for shutting down and sealing its main nuclear reactor and related facilities at Yongbyon, north of the capital, to be confirmed by international inspectors.

More:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251618,00.html

Indian Princess · Post by **Indian Princess** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:05 am

Call me paranoid, but I always feel when a country says yeah ok I'll take my toys apart and get rid of them, that they have a whole toy box full of other toys just waiting to be put together.

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:12 am

Indian Princess;548622 wrote: Call me paranoid, but I always feel when a country says yeah ok I'll take my toys apart and get rid of them, that they have a whole toy box full of other toys just waiting to be put together.

Maybe but N. Korea has such deep financial problems that it has been thought they were just driving a bargain for the most aid they could get all along. We can only hope.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:58 am

Indian Princess;548622 wrote: Call me paranoid, but I always feel when a country says yeah ok I'll take my toys apart and get rid of them, that they have a whole toy box full of other toys just waiting to be put together.

That may be a problem.

See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... rea413.xml

"Making sure that Pyongyang declares all its nuclear facilities and shuts them down is likely to prove arduous. The country is believed to have numerous mountainside tunnels in which to hide projects, and probably conducted its only nuclear test so far deep inside a mountain."

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:03 pm

Trust - if possible- but verify, verify, verify!