My hunch is this is just more BS and talk from North Korea and China intended to buy time while they finish developing a few nuclear weapons and complete a successful test. Those two screwed-up communist dictatorships are just lying to us and the world while they build more weapons to use to intimidate the West. What difference does it make whether we criticize Kim Jong Il? The truth is still what it is, whether we say it publicly or not. I wonder if the concept of truth still exists in North Korea and China.
I agree. This is just a game where the Chinese and North Koreans keep us hoping that there is some sort "deal" perhaps in the air, all the while the North Koreans are preparing to make their test. In the ensuing confusion after the test, they hope that the Bush administration will be suckered into thinking that China is actually helping us, while they are just laughing in their sleeve.