The damn State Dept. bending over for N. Korea b/c they threatened to put their plants back up.... I would put them back on it ASAP!! They are terrorists. If u haven't already, look for some interviews with N. Korean escapees to the South.

Eh.... not sure about that.

Seems like a mistake.

Hope we didn't force Japans hand too hard in this.

They are not bending over backwards. North Korea agreed to the verification processes that we requested. This includes the uranium program which was a major obstacle in the process. We cannot expect them to meet all of our demands without some benefits.

That was a guise.  The NKs started to put their plants back into operation after we left and they demanded that they be delisted from the S.S.T. list.  We gave them what they wanted.  It is bargaining diplomacy at its worst.

They barred inspectors and resumed certain aspects of the program because we did not remove them from the list when we said we would. We did not remove them list when scheduled because they were reluctant to let the inspectors investigate an alleged uranium program and evidence pertaining to nuclear proliferation. They acquiesced to letting the inspectors investigate the alleged uranium program and US officials to investigate proliferation evidence, and then we removed them from list. It was a compromise, and both parties received what they were asking for.

Good news for North Korea.