Friday, October 20, 2006

North Korea Blinks

Bush's strategy is working, from Yahoo News:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Pyongyang didn't plan to carry out any more nuclear tests and expressed regret about the country's first-ever atomic detonation last week, South Korean news reports said Friday.
Kim told Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan that "we have no plans for additional nuclear tests," Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed diplomatic source in Beijing.
Kim also told the Chinese that "he is sorry about the nuclear test," the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo daily reported, citing a diplomatic source in China. The North Korean also raised the possibility the country would return to arms talks.


If only we'd listened to Dems and rewarded the communists for their bad behavior, right? No, the President's way is best, keeping the pressure on China, and continuing to involve the North's neighbors in 6 Party Talks. And of course, Kim Jung is his own worse enemy.