N. Korea's Six Nation Agreement

Within the next couple of weeks this month, N. Korean will begin showing progress in disabling nuclear facilities that were first discovered by the U.S. in 2002. This is a six nation agreement that shows one small, but great step to shorting the list of terror sponsoring nations. This agreement will, hopefully, disclose N. Korea’s amount plutonium and allow nuclear scientists from the United States, China, and Russia to assess the progress and help the countries understand more of what went on, and what’s going on the end this nuclear program.
The standard for how irreversible the dismantlement would be, has gone from irreversible to allowing N. Korea to be able to re-engage the facilities in about a year. So, even though they are “ending” the nuclear program, the very sporadic N. Korean government could easily start up hell again.

What played a part in motivating the N. Korean Government to end it’s program was that it would allow an economical advantage to the government that is probably much needed in a place were 2 cars on a single street is traffic. Though, you have to be grateful that President Bush is willing to sit down and negotiate with such an extreme nation and leader to talk about global affairs. It seems that our president is taking the civil way of approaching issues and I think it will pay off. Especially when you have such a powerful country ending such a program, it displaces a sense of action that other countries, hopefully Iran in the Middle East, will pick up on as something positive to everyone.

Already north and south leaders of Korea have met and negotiated opening a joint are for the countries to use for fishing and trade in the Yellow Sea, which has been disputed waters between the two countries. This is just one of many steps from N. Korea that are leading to possible great outcomes, and South Korean officials are already publicly acknowledging them. Also, if the agreement continues to be carried out as expected, the exit from North Korea from the terror list would open up trade in the United States.

One other outcome that needs to be addressed is that between Japan and N. Korea. The Japanese are still questioning abductions that were committed by the North Korean government but there has been no sign of an discussion or date set for any sort of Q & A between these countries.

Overall, this is a great agreement, criticize it or not, at the least of all our problems in global terror, we can now say that we are negotiating and carrying out a crack down on nuclear and terror sponsoring nations. Also, I think our president is doing a great job in doing so in the middle of his meetings, mostly consumed of Iraqi policy and the pleasing of never ending hate toward his every step.

Article Sources used for information:

The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202223.html?sid=ST2007100201132

The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/washington/03diplo.html