Tentative 'deal struck' over N. Korean nukes (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- North Korea has tentatively agreed to close down its nuclear weapons program in exchange for energy aid, U.S. and Chinese officials said Tuesday.

But the proposed deal was being reviewed by officials in the negotiators' capitals before becoming final.

Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the lead American official at the talks, said the U.S. will give an unspecified amount of energy assistance to North Korea in exchange for North Korea freezing its production of plutonium.

Hill said negotiators are running the agreement by their capitals and would reconvene later Tuesday.

"We feel it's an excellent excellent draft," Hill said. "I don't think we are the problem."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/12/nkorea.talks/index.html

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Great News - If True

Might well just be "truthy".

[johncoby2]

2. So much for not negotiating with terrorists.........

But this is good if it is happening.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. And what is the "good reason" why our Administration can't talk

to Iran about the same thing?

[LSparkle]

4. I heard this basically takes us back to the deal Clinton's admin made

around 1994 -- economic incentives in exchange for allowing inspectors, etc.

But of course the Bushies will NEVER admit this ... They'll act like this is all "their fresh ideas."

[Sirveri]

5. Wow, it is exactly what Clinton did! How strange! NT

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Silly -- don't you know Clinton was SOFT on defense?

:sarcasm:

[itsmesgd]

7. Problem (tentatively) solved and no bombs dropped

John Bolton is sooooo pissed off.