U.S. TECHNICIANS TO BEGIN DISABLING N. KOREAN NUKE REACTOR BEGINNING MONDAY

George Bush has accomplished what Bill Clinton could not (and neither the BBC, nor CNN give him credit for it):

Sung Kim is leading the team of experts in Pyongyang. A team of US technicians is due to begin disabling North Korea's nuclear complex on Monday with Pyongyang's permission, a top US envoy has said.

The technicians have left Pyongyang and are due to arrive at the main nuclear site, Yongbyon, on Sunday, according to Christopher Hill.

Pyongyang agreed to disabling in return for aid and security guarantees.

It shut down its reactor at Yongbyon in July and is to give details of its programme by the end of the year.

Speaking in Tokyo, Mr Hill said the US experts would start disabling the reactor, North Korea's only functioning one, and two other facilities on Monday.

"It's a very big day because it's the first time it [North Korea] is actually going to start dismantling its nuclear programme," he added.

WHAT DO NORTH KOREA'S NUKES AND THE NYSE HAVE IN COMMON?

THE FACT THAT NEWS ABOUT THEM IS SCANT.

MORE PROOF OF THE BDS MSM.

THESE ARE GREAT AND BIG NEWS STORIES WHICH SHOULD BE TRUMPETED.

BUT THE BUSH ECONOMY AND BUSH'S DEFT AND PATIENT USE OF MULITLATERALISM VIS A VIS THE NOKO NUKES HAS GOTTEN ZERO PLAY IN THE MEDIA.

IF HILLARY WAS PREZ NOW THE MSM WOULD BE DECLARING HER THE MESSIAH.

PROOF BILL RICHARDSON IS THE ONLY SERIOUS AND QUALIFIED DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY

IHT:

U.S. presidential candidate Bill Richardson left Saturday for North Korea, part of a delegation of past and present U.S. officials on what was described as a humanitarian mission to claim the remains of American soldiers killed in the Korean War.

The four-day trip also is meant to draw attention to the Democrat's underdog bid for the presidency and to highlight his extensive foreign policy experience, which includes negotiating trips to hot spots around the world and serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during President Bill Clinton's administration. He is now the governor of the state of New Mexico.

As with many of Richardson's freelance diplomatic missions, this one benefits from fortunate timing. Endorsed by President George W. Bush's Republican administration, it comes days before a crucial deadline in a landmark nuclear accord the North agreed to in February, four months after testing a nuclear weapon.

UNLIKE PELOSI'S DANGEROUS AND LAW-BREAKING "FOREIGN POLICY FREE-LANCING", RICHARDSON IS ACTING IN CONCERT WITH THE ELECTED PRESIDENT. BRAVO.

BESIDES, UNLIKE PELOSI, (OR OBAMA OR HILLARY - OR ALL OF THE OTHER DEM CLOWNS SEEKING THE PRESIDENCY) HE'S ACTUALLY A TRAINED AND EXPERIENCED DIPLOMAT AND NEGOTIATOR -- WITH EXPERIENCE IN NORTH KOREA.

U.S. and North Korea Resolve Bank Standoff

NYTIMES:

The United States and North Korea have resolved a standoff over North Korean funds frozen in a bank account in Macao, clearing the way for talks to focus on implementing a nuclear disarmament accord, Chinese and American officials said today.

IF THIS ALL WORKS OUT, WILL BUSH GET ANY CREDIT FOR HIS ADMINISTRATION'S DEFT AND PERSISTENT MULTI-LATERAL DIPLOMATIC EFFORT?

I EXPECT NOT; THAT WOULD JUST BE TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR FROM THE BDS AFFLICTED LEFT. AFTER ALL, IT CONTRADICTS THEIR MOST "SANCTIFIED" BELIEFS ABOUT THE MAN.