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   Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gnter Grass still thinks reunification was a bad idea.
 Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
 With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
 The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something.
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January 29, 2003
By: NORTH KOREA....It sure has been quiet on the North Korea front, hasn't it? President Bush spent, oh, 30 seconds on it last night, saying basically that "we're working on it" and then moving on to weightier dictators. So what's the latest? Well, according to CNN, the South Koreans sent an envoy to Pyonyang, but Kim Jong-il snubbed him and refused to meet. The envoy did manage to pass along a letter, however, and claims that Kim "promised to study its warm advice and let us know their opinion later." Uh huh. Later in the same story, CNN reported that the snub was deliberate:
This is nothing new, really, but it's hard not to wonder if maybe they're actually serious about this. The North Koreans have proven so untrustworthy that it seems foolish to take anything they say at face value, but they sure have been consistent about what they want from the U.S.: a nonagression pact and a guarantee of security. Assuming for a second that we could negotiate a suitable verification regime a very big if is there really anything wrong with this? I imagine there's a catch here, but if suitable security guarantees could denuclearize the Korean penninsula, well, that seems like a pretty good tradeoff to me. —Kevin Drum 2:47 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (0)Comments
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