Big News From North Korea

If you are an optimist, there's some pretty big news out of North Korea today:

North Korea agreed to abandon nuclear work

"North Korea has agreed to give up all its nuclear activities and rejoin the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Chinese and Korean news agencies say.
At the same time, the US is said to have given an undertaking that it has no intention of attacking North Korea.

The breakthrough came during a fourth round of six-party talks in Beijing aimed at ending a three-year standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. "

It has been reported that one of the reasons North Korea decided to allegedly give up its nukes was because, ‘Russia may build nuclear reactor for North Korea’.

" Russia wants to build a nuclear reactor for North Korea as part of a global plan to offer the reclusive state energy resources in exchange for giving up its nuclear arms programme, a top nuclear official said on Monday.

Earlier on Monday, North Korea promised to abandon its nuclear arms programme. In return, South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China expressed a willingness to provide oil and energy aid as well as security guarantees.

“We build atomic power stations abroad, and Russia can organise a similar project in North Korea,” Alexander Rumyantsev, head of Russia’s Atomic Energy Agency, told Itar-Tass news agency in an interview.

“Russia is ready to join the project, and we have the potential and willingness (to do so).

“We have to work out how we are going to do this first. Diplomats need to agree first, then we’ll get a corresponding order, and we are ready to act, and we are interested.” "

On the one hand, they tried something like this with Bill Clinton and it didn't amount to much. On the other hand, times change so who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, as the Shadow would say. As I stated earlier, you have to be an optimist in todays world or the sad sad truth will just make you cry.