The New North Korean Deal

Playback Editor on 02/18/07

I have read numerous articles from around the world suggesting that the deal brokered with the international six and North Korea was either a failure, a reward to a rogue nation going nuclear or at best a rehash of President Clinton's 1994 deal. All three are off the mark.

The United States has been criticized unmercifully for "going it alone" in Iraq. Here they organized and championed a core group of the international community including China, Russia, Japan and South Korea to confront North Korea in a very firm and united fashion. Unlike 1994, today North Korea is both working with and being closely monitored by a group of highly motivated and concerned neighbors that never could have been as tightly organized before the U.S. upped the accountability ante with the Iraqi invasion.