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Sam Dealey

Fixing the North Korea Nuclear Error

December 02, 2008 04:17 PM ET | Sam Dealey | Permanent Link | Print

By Sam Dealey, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

So just how bad was the Bush administration's hastily contrived deal with North Korea in October that led to the country's immediate removal from the U.S. terror list? As the AP now reports:

The top U.S. negotiator in talks to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons said Tuesday that Pyongyang must agree to a verification of its disarmament activities and the deal must be put in writing.

North Korea agreed last year to disable its nuclear reactor in exchange for aid. But negotiations have since stalled after the Stalinist state denied it agreed to allow inspectors to take samples from its nuclear complex to verify past nuclear activities.

So it turns out the brilliant "pragmatists" at State failed to get the nuclear verification agreement with North Korea in writing. And now, in what is surprisingly a surprise to these pragmatists, the North Koreans have proved yet again they can't be trusted and are reneging on their alleged promise.

Thankfully, there's a chance now to scrap the deal entirely. And would some responsible adult at the White House remember to please put North Korea back on the terror list, from which it never should have been removed?

Tags: North Korea | nuclear weapons | terrorism | Bush administration | foreign policy | nuclear power

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Struggle for Faith!

Thie country as becaming famous to be reclusive state and sponsoring terrorism should no be mis-interpreted. With its people on hunger and feeded with faith and teaching on a good deed of the father of this country, Kim Il Sung, they always think that their life is good as it has been interpreted best by those who leading them by closing the knowledge of the people to the actual positive way of life by other people in another country. They remain ignorant and printed with recitable knowledge that mostly benefiting man over woman and so as the military ruling itself to all.

The actual culture and teaching and faith that has been thought by the Great leader has been use to manipulate mind to reamain military the most in power as been orchestrated by the new leader itself. The people are enaturally human who has positive feeling on good deeds and negative feeling on bad but in slave by those interpretation feeded not beeng bornly think on their individual mind. Their motto as one who being use to freighten them not to make a difference in idea from those leading them or face toughness solidify the people as one force but fragile thru cares that could liberate them.

The only way to make them live in peace is to move them in faith that others are concern and other people move by itself to have progress on their own living. People can be save but an struggle to inject faith in reality is a dangerous road as the people who benifiting there was always on their tough watch on it.Media can be the best way but on how it could be done is defend on the new technology that remain a chalenge to those who are concern!

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Sam Dealey is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest. He has written for many publications, including Time, GQ, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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