Trusting North Korea

Davenport, Iowa

The Bush administration has agreed to lift North Korea’s designation as a state sponsor of terror despite the fact that the North Koreans did not sign any formal agreement obligating the rogue state to verifiably abandon its nuclear program, according to two sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

“There is no formal written agreement,” says a former top Bush administration official. “The North Koreans haven’t signed anything. We are taking them off the terrorist list based on oral understandings and clarifications. This isn’t diplomacy, it’s lunacy.”