North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament

[TheBear]

From Ireland.com:

• North Korea agreed to take steps towards nuclear disarmament under a deal struck today that will bring the impoverished state more than $300 million worth of aid.
  
  Under the agreement, which was reached by six countries in Beijing after nearly a week of talks, Pyongyang will freeze the reactor at the heart of its nuclear programme and allow international inspections of the site.
  
  "This progress marks another firm and important step towards the denuclearisation of the peninsula," China's chief delegate, Wu Dawei, told the closing session of the talks.
  
  "It is favourable for the peace process in northeast Asia and for the improvement of ties between relevant countries," he said.
  
  The proposed plan hammered out by the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia, and China will only be the first step in locating and dismantling North Korea's nuclear arms activities, leaving many crucial questions to future negotiations.
  
  "This is only one phase of denuclearisation. We're not done," chief US negotiator Christopher Hill said.
  
  As details of the draft leaked out earlier, Japan was already voicing doubt that any agreement could be made to stick, and a prominent US conservative decried it as a "very bad deal".
  This is only one phase of denuclearisation. We're not done
  US negotiator Christopher Hill
  
  John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, said the communist state should not be rewarded with "massive shipments of heavy fuel oil" for only partially dismantling its nuclear programme.
  
  "It sends exactly the wrong signal to would-be proliferators around the world," he said.

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Now we just have to wait and see if they follow through on their promises...

[badinage]

In a sense, isn't this just giving in to blackmail/terrorism? 'Give us $300 million or we'll built a nuclear bomb'

If only those James Bond supervillans had known that simply threatening to build a nuclear reactor was enough...

[Ballubahs]

But, Are they happy?

[Rocky]

In a sense, isn't this just giving in to blackmail/terrorism? 'Give us $300 million or we'll built a nuclear bomb'

If only those James Bond supervillans had known that simply threatening to build a nuclear reactor was enough...

Yeah it is and it doesn't discourage other countries to setup nuclear programme's either. But what else can you do?

The only other options are invade or just let N.Korea have nuclear weapons and neither of them are great options.

Hopefully now N.Korea will disarm because there’s no guarantee that they will.