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Edgy DC Sep 02 2007 01:03 PM

North Korea has apparently agreed to dismantle its nuclear program. Assuming there's no other shoe dropping --- never a particularly safe assumption --- it's apparently quite a diplomatic coup.

metirish Sep 02 2007 01:09 PM

Nice but I'll believe it when it happens.

Edgy DC Sep 02 2007 01:19 PM

They got hit hard by floods this year. Hundreds were killed, hundreds of thousands left homeless, their farmland decimated, and thousands of buildings destroyed. The country's infrastructure is already a disaster and the government may see things destabilizing and are looking at the program as unsustainable. South Korea, meanwhile, has had the most rapidly expanding economy over the last 30-40 years or so.

metirish Sep 02 2007 01:24 PM

I know what you are saying but there has been a famine there for a few years or more...this guy klnows how to play the internationl community.