Saturday, January 05, 2008

NKorea nuclear talks stalled amid disputes - Yahoo! News
AP reports: "International efforts to put an end to North Korea's nuclear programme appeared to hit a snag Saturday after Pyongyang defiantly insisted it had lived up to its end of a six-party disarmament deal."

Comment: I wonder if North Korea understands that it got a very good deal and stretching this out to get even more concessions is a very bad idea. On the other hand, what recourse is there for the six-parties other than war? After all, North Korea has already been sanctioned to death, not that the party and military elite care about all the people who have died, they probably are willing to continue to endure the privations of their international pariah status, so it's not clear that even more sanctions would be effective. Is the Korean War about to resume?

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