The Curmudgeon

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Only 3700 Miles From Anchorage

The smallest and least overtly Muslim member of the Axis of Evil has returned to trouble the Bush administration's last glorious months. North Korea tested a supposed nuclear weapon two years ago, resulting in a "disarmament pact between the country and the US, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan", although the Independent's reporter unfortunately fails to make clear precisely what armaments the US, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan committed themselves to giving up.

North Korea, whose oil reserves are thought to be minimal and which is not very Muslim at all really, has now banned UN weapons inspectors from its main nuclear facility on the grounds that the US has reneged on a promise to remove it from a blacklist of states which sponsor the wrong kind of terrorism. The Americans say that they could hardly be expected to keep their promise until they were certain the North Koreans were keeping theirs; and we all know how much credence the White House places in the findings of UN weapons inspectors.

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