Ping!
This doesn't make sense at all. Kim is still torked at Japan for not giving in (Ref his banning of all Japanese cars) And the U.S. have troops here in Japan defending this country with a defense treaty. Is Japan still vulnerable?
It was very disappointing that the Bush administration would execute another Agreed Framework with this totalitarian state. Agreeing to bilateral negotiations and removing North Korea from the terrorist state list (where it has been since 1988) was as if Ms. Albright were back. Giving them fuel oil or North Korea's choice of equivalent value after North Korea plays its missile games and it sets off a small nuclear explosion is rewarding bad behavior.
Maybe we can call our new stance the "Sunshine Policy" also. It's likely to be just as successful.
Wow who could have seen that coming
In the words of Margaret Thatcher, I fear President Bush has "gone wobbly".