1994 + 13

I'm not a triskaidekaphobic, but there is something ominous in the new six party agreement following the Agreed Framework by thirteen years. The Korea Times has the full text of the new Denuclearization Agreement here. Perhaps I'm just being pessimistic, but I don't see this as a win for anyone other than the North Koreans. For someone to beleive that the DPRK is capable of negotiating in good faith, it's necessary to forget the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005, in which they committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons, and the similar commitment from the Agreed Framework to remain within the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

Once again our foreign policy establishment seems to beleive that any agreement is a good agreement.

Reagan would have left the table.

James S. Robbins says it much better than I at NRO.