A Clean Slate for North Korea

FrontPageMag.com ^ | June 27, 2008 | Jacob Laksin

[ETL]

It now turns out that the options the U.S. had been contemplating were designed not to punish North Korean duplicity but to encourage it. So it is that, despite its recent collaboration with Hezbollah-sponsor Syria – to say nothing of its intent, in the run-up the Iraq war, to sell $10 million worth of medium-range missiles to Saddam Hussein for use against coalition troops – North Korea no longer will be designated a terrorist state. Never mind that the country has yet to come clean about its nuclear program. In the eyes of the Bush administration, North Korea has been given a clean slate.

[kittymyrib]

Has there ever been a more inept Sec. of State than Ms. Rice? She makes Maddy Albright look like John Foster Dulles.

[DeusExMachina05]

So...no one seems to care that they probably have 5-10 nukes stashed somewhere that they built in the interim?

[Wiseghy]

N. Korea is likely on the verge of collapse, otherwise there would be no point to this move. This is where totalitarianism and socialisim leads, always.

However, it won’t matter. After millions of refugees head to s.k. and china, or die in mass internal chaos and starvation, the MSM and nearly every other nation and US politico will join in a joyful chorus of

BLAME BUSH!

[ETL]

Now compare with the FrontPageMag article at the top, this puff piece from the AP. There isn't a single mention of any of the negative consequences of this action until the very end, which is on page 2.

North Korea destroys reactor tower
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/06/27/2008-06-27_north_korea_destroys_reactor_tower.html