[jhpigott]

Makes me wonder then if it had anything to do with this article. Coincidence or did someone not want this deal to be finalized?

Published 13:09 20.12.11
U.S. official: North Korea leader died just as deal was struck to halt nuclear program

Senior U.S. official says Obama administration was about to secure deal to transfer food aid to North Korea in return of the suspension of the country’s controversial uranium enrichment program.

The United States was about to announce a deal that would put a stop to North Korea’s uranium enrichment program when it was announced that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Il, had died, a senior U.S. official told CBS on Tuesday.

The Obama administration, according to the official, was due to announce that the U.S. would make a large donation of food aid to North Korea, and in turn North Korea was to announce the suspension of its controversial uranium enrichment program.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/u-s-official-north-korea-leader-died-just-as-deal-was-struck-to-halt-nuclear-program-1.402562

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong-il and Bill Clinton were about to sign a sweeping deal between two countries near the end of Slick' term. Then Florida recount incident occurred. It consumed all of Slick attention, and they missed the opportunity to seal the deal. It was a historic near miss which averted a major diplomatic disaster. Very luck coincidence from our point of view. To this day, I am really glad that it happened the way it did.

Now we apparently had a similar situation. I knew about the deal being worked out behind the scene. I even thought that their announcement of impending special broadcast meant that they will announce the deal with some fanfare in the broadcast. History did another magic and it stopped on its track Dem's sorry gambit to score what they can tout as diplomatic breakthrough, giving a new lease on NK regime.

[Revenge of Sith]

Another strange coincidence that Kim Il Sung became very conciliatory towards the US just days before his sudden death in 1994. It was Kim Jong Il who ran North Korea’s nuclear program. A defector later said that Kim Il Sung died during an argument with his son.