[AmericanInTokyo]

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement today after North Korea agreed at the Six Party talks in Beijing to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs, to return to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and to accept International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation, and security assurances: "The Bush administration was right to reverse course on North Korea and stop letting ideology get in the way of results. This is evidence that hard-headed engagement offers a greater hope of reining in the North's dangerous nuclear ambitions than the policy paralysis of the past several years."

[Guenevere]

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