A Non-Deal?

Fire of Liberty

If you want to get the straight skinny on the recent deal drawn up by Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States - some folks would call it a non-deal - in which North Korea agreed to discontinue it's nuke program and allow inspectors to inspect their programs in a return for a light-water nuclear reactor and food aid, then check out this column by Austin Bay and this one by Max Boot. Now I'm in the camp that believes that such an agreement will fall apart much like the 1994 Framework due to the fact that the North Koreans can't keep their promises. The only way your going to get the Hermit Kingdom to stop building their nuke stockpile in their underground bunkers, manning their slave camps, and starving it's people (I take the NK leadership legitimacy with a grain of salt) is via a regime change. Unfortunately, as long as the US sits back and refuses to make a vocal case for the people of North Korea to be free from their Stalinist masters and the left leaning government of Seoul refuses to see Kim Jong Il as the monster he is and keeps sending his regime money to prevent the North Koreans from getting upset, we'll have much of the same.