{"id":234,"date":"2007-10-03T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2007-11-07T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T12:16:56","slug":"north-korea-agrees-to-halt-nuclear-arms-for-food-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/north-korea-agrees-to-halt-nuclear-arms-for-food-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea agrees to halt nuclear arms for food, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/04\/world\/asia\/04diplo.html?th&amp;emc=th\">North Korea agreed<\/a> to a specific timetable for the North to disclose all its nuclear programs and disable all facilities in return for 950,000 metric tons of fuel oil or its equivalent in economic aid by the end of the year.  The agreement does not discuss when North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons. The agreement also calls on the United States to \u201cbegin the process of removing\u201d North Korea from a United States terrorism list \u201cin parallel\u201d with the North\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like great news.  Let&#8217;s hope it is.  But the track record of Kim Jong-il is bad.  We might expect resumption of nuclear posturing once Kim has fed his people and warmed their homes for winter.\u00a0 (But here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/04\/opinion\/04thur1.html?th&amp;emc=th\">more optimistic editorial from NYT<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea agreed to a specific timetable for the North to disclose all its nuclear programs and disable all facilities in return for 950,000 metric tons of fuel oil or its equivalent in economic aid by the end of the year. The agreement does not discuss when North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/north-korea-agrees-to-halt-nuclear-arms-for-food-for-now\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea agrees to halt nuclear arms for food, for now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-3M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}