Progress with North Korea
The Chinese government announced on Thursday that North Korea will hand over a declaration of its nuclear program and that, if the information is verified to be accurate, the United States would then remove North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism and end some economic sanctions against it.
Managing the six party talks and having the patience to slowly convince China of the necessity of putting pressure on North Korea has been a triumph of diplomacy and something the Bush administration deserves a whole lot of credit for. This problem hasn’t been completely solved yet of course, but the immense progress that has been made is extremely important and we are safer because of it.
