It turns out that the only problem with my earlier comments about North Korea … either yesterday or the day before, in the Ramble was that I wasn’t being cynical enough.
WASHINGTON —AP- The State Department said Monday that what North Korea has shut down under a six-party deal cut in February is a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, one of the five facilities that Pyongyang agreed to close with a U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Do you understand what’s happening here? North Korea has gone ahead and made a big show of shutting down the nuclear reactor, and the United Nations and the press, regard this as a major accomplishment. However, it would appear that somebody has noticed that there someone standing behind the curtain, throwing lovers and buttons. Someone we apparently were not supposed to pay any attention to.
North Korea gets its fuel oil, gets its stolen and counterfeited money freed up, it is basically off the hook and both matters. Not a bad deal, for having only followed through on 1/5 of the original agreement. This is what constitutes a major accomplishment in the United Nations, today.
Ask me again why I consider the United Nations worse than useless.