Yeah right, we've heard this one before. AP North Korea agreed Monday to dismantle nuclear weapons and its atomic facilities in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disar...

Why? Because once they have them, they're assured that they will never be attacked so long as they don't invade any other nations, and possibly not even then. They can certainly get away with whatever horrors they want within their own borders. Nuclear capability has become the crack cocaine of 3rd world governments.

I personally think that a stated ambition to develop nukes is one of the few things that should qualify for a pre-emptive attack. It's bad enough we have them, it's downright catastrophic to allow any Tom, Dick, or Kim to have them.

Iraq didn't meet the requirements. We had a successful program of containment and plenty of people in positions to know, agreed. Now we don't have the military or economic presence to stop North Korea, which is why we are in this situation. That pisses me off because it creates greater instability worldwide, which puts us and our interests at much greater risk.

I'm not a tree-hugging liberal. I'm a pissed off Texan liberal. I believe in the military and in using it judiciously to strengthen security. It really pisses off people like me that people on the right will acknowledge serious problems like this, but turn a blind eye to everything the Bush administration does, even when they're exacerbating the problem.

North Korea pledged to drop its nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties i

First, the six parties agreed to the six items in the joint statement. The statement is nothing more than a list of observations, two which concern agreements;

Second, In section 4 of the joint statement, the six parties "agreed to explore ways and means for promoting security cooperation in northeast Asia;"

Third, in section 5 of the joint statement the six parties "agreed to take coordinated steps to implement the aforementioned consensus in a phased manner in line with the principle of 'commitment for commitment, action for action;'" and

Fourth, in section 6 of the joint statement, the six parties "agreed to hold the fifth round of the six party talks in Beijing in early November 2005 at a date to be determined through consultations."

Everything else in joint statement has been agreed to or stated previously.

AP alert just went out:AP News Alert BEIJING (AP) -- A joint statement released at the six-party nuclear talks says North Korea has promised to drop all nuclear programs as soon as possible.Link here. The six-party talks were proceeding in...