US to keep North Korea on terror list

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Australian

US to keep North Korea on terror list
Peter Alford, Tokyo correspondent | August 11, 2008

THE United States will not remove North Korea from its "state sponsors of terrorism" embargo list later today.

Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said he received that news from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice early today, after the expiry of President George W. Bush's 42-day notice to Congress of his intention to de-list the Pyongyang regime.

Removal from the list, which bans US development aid and diplomatic privileges and obliges Washington to veto lending by multilateral bodies like the World Bank, was one incentive to North Korea to honour its undertaking in January 2007 to halt and dismantle its nuclear weapons programs.

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Since delivering 18,000 pages of nuclear documentation and disabling at least part of their Yongbyon plutonium producing reactor earlier this year, the North Koreans have regarded the terrorism de-listing as a done deal.

Read more: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24161806-2703,00.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. It belongs there! nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Hardly an incentive

for Iran to enter into a similar agreement.

[Loudmxr]

3. HAHA They actually BELIEVED the WORD of George Bush????