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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/world/asia/12terror.html
The Administration seems to start getting pretty desperate to leave SOMETHING to it's name.
New York Times said:WASHINGTON The Bush administration announced on Saturday that it was removing North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism and said the country had agreed to adhere to concessions on its nuclear program, in a bid to salvage a fragile nuclear deal that seemed on the verge of collapse.
Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, said that North Korea had agreed to resume disabling its plutonium plant at Yongbyon, replace the seals on its nuclear equipment and allow international inspectors to return.
But almost immediately, the move brought expressions of concern from Republican lawmakers, including the presidential nominee, Senator John McCain.
In the most significant part of the agreement, North Korea agreed to a verification regime that would allow United States inspectors access to all of its declared nuclear facilities. But the deal puts off decisions on the thorniest verification issue: what happens if international experts suspect the North is hiding other nuclear weapons facilities.
The deal also salvages an agreement that the Bush administration hoped to trumpet as one of major foreign policy achievements.
The United States wanted the North to agree to inspections at sites that raise suspicions, but North Korea balked. The new agreement calls for United States inspectors to be granted access based on mutual consent with North Korea
The Administration seems to start getting pretty desperate to leave SOMETHING to it's name.