North Korea Was Bad....North Korea Now Good?

It appears North Korea is dismantling its nuclear program. Is this the real deal? Well let us first examine the last time we attempted to negotiate with this particular country.

If you remember the Frame Work Agreement of the 1990's, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter brokered a deal to prevent a nuclear North Korea. They gave the North Korean's large quantities of food and aid as well as a light water nuclear reactor. The result was clear years later when the North Korean dictator announced he had built a nuke.

Of course that instance was blamed on Bush for not paying attention, but in reality the blame lies on the faulty agreement. The problem was we unilaterally negotiated without any real indication of whether they were going to live up to their end of the deal. This time appears to be different. Bush and his diplomatic crew used multilateral 6 party talks which produced the very deal that is leading to the dismantling of the North Korean Program.

Now I give Bush credit for getting the deal brokered, and the IAEA involved...but it is still no lock. North Korea has proven to be an unstable country; so to get our hopes up, I feel would be ill conceived. The fact is we are dealing with a nut job dictator that was looking to black mail the west and we caved. Now I may be wrong, and this may work out. But I would hold on to my hat, because this could be another long drive down deception lane.