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U.S. Removes North Korea From Terror Blacklist - NYTimes.com
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:30 AM EDT
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The U.S. says North Korea has agreed to every nuclear inspection demand the Bush administration has sought, so the North is being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist.
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 | US to remove NKorea from terror blacklist | Agence-France Presse | Sat Oct 11 | 0 |
 | NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal | Associated Press | Fri Oct 10 | 0 |
| SKorean envoy urges NKorea to stick to disarmament | Associated Press | Sun Oct 12 | 1 |
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{"commentId":3435041,"authorDomain":"jcatom"}
The agreement is intended to salvage a faltering nuclear disarmament accord in the short time before President Bush leaves office in January.
Even so, this is a step in the right direction.
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#1 - Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:32 AM EDT{"commentId":3437020,"authorDomain":"softfacts"}
''There should be no anticipation by anybody that there are not going to be bumps in the road. This is going to be a bumpy road. However, we are building a road,'' said Paula DeSutter, assistant secretary for verification, compliance and implementation.
See that? Building roads. Not blowing them up. Now is that because we're learning from our mistakes or just too broke from our mistakes?
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{"commentId":3435574,"authorDomain":"PeaceTalk"}
I don't understand how we can go around the world and demand that countries disarm themselves, yet we sit on the biggest stock pile of nuclear arms in the world.
In addition the revamping of the entire U.S. nuclear "defense" systems which just finished last year. The report that was released stated that the DOD was to replace all the old warheads (W62) with newer ones (w87). The new warheads not only cost us several billions of dollars. It also increase the yield of each missile by by ten fold.
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#2 - Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:09 PM EDT{"commentId":3436519,"authorDomain":"mollskin"}
Point taken; still, to begin with exerting some pressure on absolute dictatorships which have nuclear arms is at the very least, as JCAtom wrote, a positive step. I cannot see a downside to this news.
The fewer of them, the better. So let's keep going.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":3437361,"authorDomain":"PeaceTalk"}
Doesn't that path simply lead to our leader being the dictator?
As they would be the only one with the weapons?
I just think it sends a bad message.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":3437608,"authorDomain":"jbdaad"}
I don't understand how we can go around the world and demand that countries disarm themselves, yet we sit on the biggest stock pile of nuclear arms in the world.
http://jbdaad.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/10/1983229-us-india-sign-unprecedented-nuclear-deal
Maybe this is where some of our old stuff will go.
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{"commentId":3448915,"authorDomain":"indvoter"}
it's disappointing that this thread only has a handful of comments...This represents a MAJOR shift in US foreign policy. While he was at it...Bush should have eliminated the Axis of Evil...Maybe then this story would have made some headlines. Also, Jbdaad, don't forget that America still operates on the "walk softly, and carry a big stick" philosophy of diplomacy.
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#3 - Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:28 PM EDT{"commentId":3456377,"authorDomain":"idahopotatofarmer4077"}
I'm quite certain the US doesn't walk softly (it's speak softly I believe, and even then we don't), and it has a few thousand of big sticks. Really a few is enough. With all that we spend to keep our nukes in shape we could easily have only a few hundred and send the same message: start something, and we are sure to end it. Back to the topic at hand.
Kim Jeong-Il is a very odd man. Though I see his pursuit of a nuke a sign of more desperation. He is an isloated country with exception of some support of China with the US having missiles pointed in all sorts of directions on his home. This nuke would have been a way, in his mind, to warn the US and SK that if anything happens to him and his country he was going to take extreme measures.
Even so, this is a positive step. Hopefully NK, or should I say Kim, will wise up a bit and start to relax their hard line military stance. Also, hopefully the US will continue to loosen up the noose they have drawn around NK and try to put an end to the DMZ. A big hope granted but we never know how the future will turn out.
Also this is an reason why dealing harshly with an already badgered and cornered nation does not mean it will back down. Perhaps the same can be applied with Iran.
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