[Rutles4Ever]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Geopolitics 101 Class Homework Assignment:

"Can any clear and meaningful distinction now be drawn between this current lame duck Republican Administration and it's State Department, and the Clinton Administration, when it comes to interface with and negotiation concessions extracted from, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea???"

[ONEBYEONE]

Japan won't contribute to N. Korea's energy supplies until the kidnapping issues have been resolved. So does this make Japan still vulnerable to attacks? How can USA agree to this format while we support Japan defensively? I saw that Bolton was against this. He said that 6 years ago Colin Powell had suggested the same plan, but the USA rejected it. He said why wasn't it approved back then?

[1234]

how dare them report "tentative" as newsworthy?!

[Jmouse007]

This deal is just plain STUPID. All we are doing is propping lill kim and his regime up so he can continue lying and cheating, developing his nukes in secret until he is ready to use them, give/sell them to our enemies who will use them or bring them out of moth balls when he needs to reblackmail the west again for more aid.

This is madness and for our President to stand before the American people today and say that the deal is a good thing is an out and out lie. It is NOT a good thing, you can not trust communist Kim to keep his word at all.

In the meantime, by agreeing to the terms of this new blackmail deal, hundreds of thousands of NK political prisoners continue to be enslaved, tortured and put to death. All because we are unwilling to face facts and deal with this situation once and for all by continuing to empower this mad man.