Can anyone tell me why a nation that has made a fool out of administration after administration, be taken of the the list of state sponsors, days after it restarts its nuclear program, and one day after they threaten a test launch of 10 missiles of their coast?
Answer: This administration is impotent, and cannot afford another black eye. Condi will give away the store.
Insight: You can insert Obama and Iran into this story, and you will have a news story from the future.
From The Jawa Report:
North Korea: Terror No More?
It is being reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might announce as early as today that the United States will remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration looks poised to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department’s terrorism blacklist, perhaps as soon as Friday, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.The move would be an effort to keep a nuclear disarmament pact with North Korea from falling apart, the newspaper said in an article posted on its website, quoting sources close to the administration.
The newspaper quoted some sources as saying the delisting could happen as soon as Friday. But State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told the Post in an e-mail, ” I can assure you that a decision has not been made.”
I don’t know about you, but I think this is enough to convince me that they should stay on the list:
North Korea deployed more than 10 missiles on its west coast apparently for an imminent test launch, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday, and Pyongyang halted U.N. monitoring of its nuclear complex.The potentially destabilizing actions followed reports the United States had offered to remove North Korea from its terrorism blacklist this month.
And this….
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said in recent days North Korea appeared to have been powering up its nuclear program and testing missiles. American satellite images confirmed reports of short-range missile testing recently, but the U.S. said those moves would not mean the death of international efforts to persuade North Korea to recommit to an agreement that offers it diplomatic and economic concessions in exchange for nuclear disarmament.
Would removing them from the terror list actually help men relations between North Korea and the U.S. or would we merely be giving them a pass? I personally think it would be a mistake. What say you?
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