Tuesday, February 13, 2007
It's hard to get excited. Reagan said "trust, but verify." In this case there's only verify. I get the feeling this "agreement" is thinner than a Palestinian Arab cease-fire, and no matter what, there's still a country enslaved and starving and Japanese kidnap victims unaccounted for...
N. Korea talks reach a tentative accord - Deal would halt nuclear weapons
The chief US negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, qualified the draft accord as "excellent" but declined to provide details. He said it was being submitted to all six governments and, pending their formal approval, would be ratified at a meeting scheduled for today in Beijing.
"We would like to think that we can all agree on this," Hill said at a briefing. "We feel it is an excellent draft, so I don't think we would be the problem."...
