The Bush administration has used a shrewd mix of regional pressure and the enticement of direct relations to get what looks like a much greater degree of verification from Pyongyang than the aborted Agreed Framework that left Kim free to pursue both uranium- and plutonium-based weapons programs.

This is another very significant George W. Bush accomplishment that liberals won’t give him credit for.

Maxx on June 27, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Stupid cowboy chimp.

After we invaded Iraq, it was really N. Korea, you know, that was the huge threat. Now that we’ve made huge progress and they aren’t such a threat anymore, eh, who cares?

I am just so suspicious

I am as well. The little potbellied dictator doesn’t roll over that easy. I am afraid he has an alternate plan.

txsurveyor on June 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Me three. Couple things, though: he’s desperate, the country is starving, even the army and the power players are feeling it, and he needs their support; maybe he really had no choice. Also, he still has bombs, and knowledge, in case the eeevil US double-crosses him, so he’s not totally without leverage.

So I’m encouraged.

Anyone who has been to Korea and looked at the 38th parallel knows that we should be looking underground, considering the tunnels that the North dug trying to reach Seoul.

Has Kim been flashing that cooling tower shaped beacon again?

It looks like a cheap propaganda film.

I blame George Bush. Sister Toldjah agrees with moi, and says appeasement monkeys Carter & Clinton ain’t none to happy because, once again, President Bush has shown that strength & respect trump a pandering prostrate posture any day.

Will the defea…

WTF? It looks like it’s made out of papier mache and plywood.

wccawa on June 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM

It’s only a model.

That’s ok, that was the old one anyway, the new one is better and deeper underground.

Egfrow on June 27, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Too right. And the cooling tower, now splits off into several stacks making it look like a factory next to an office building.

- The Cat

That means nothing. He, like Saddam, has moved his operations elsewhere. Back room deals with AQ, or Iran, which are now one in the same.

madmonkphotog on June 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM

I agree. Best guess is that we decided starving the norks wasn’t going to work toward overthrow of their piglet dictator. They’ve been malnutritioned for years and no matter how many sanctions we put on the Norks it’s not going to affect il Kim, just the already starving slaves he presides over. I just hope they get some freeeking food now!

connertown on June 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM

6/27 WAS AN OUTSIDE JOB!!

John Conner (in fact, my real name)

That means nothing. He, like Saddam, has moved his operations elsewhere. Back room deals with AQ, or Iran, which are now one in the same.

madmonkphotog on June 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM

I don’t think Saddam is making anymore back room deals, once again, thanks to George W. Bush.

Maxx on June 27, 2008 at 11:55 AM

You are right, GW is definitely not the messiah.

I can’t get excited over this at all…. North Korea still doesn’t pass the smell test.( No, I’m not referring to kimchi)

The demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at its main reactor complex is a response to U.S. concessions ….”

Huh???

Dusty on June 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM

How did you expect the media to frame this? You didn’t expect them to frame this as a victory for BOOOOOch did you?

If the media witnessed Bush walking on water the news report would read:

Bush can’t swim.

Obama’s birth certificate said his name was Barack Hussein Obama Il

txsurveyor on June 27,2008 at 11:38AM

txsurveyor: But,but,there was no steel,or fire,it
was all cement,it,it,didn’t look right!:)