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Oh yes,by the way, here's a lttle story tucked away in the foreign pages:

North Korea to scrap nuclear plans

North Korea has agreed to fully disclose and disable its entire nuclear programme by the end of the year, the chief US negotiator said last night — the first time Pyongyang has offered a timeline to end its nuclear ambitions.

Christopher Hill, who has been negotiating with Pyongyang for months over its nuclear programme, said under the deal North Korea would fully disarm in return for aid and security guarantees — most notably the normalisation of ties with the US.

If North Korea is genuine in its pledge to detail and dismantle its nuclear programme, and if it can be fully verified with inspections, it will represent one of the biggest diplomatic breakthroughs of the Bush presidency and have enormous geopolitical repercussions.

Er, yes.
 
There's one operative word there, of course: 'if'.

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Lee Jakeman

September 3rd, 2007 11:54pm

I don't believe in "if" anymore - it's an illusion ....

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