Secretary Rice to visit DPRK?

As the February 13th agreement continues to be worked out, it seems more and more that the issue of North Korean human rights is going right off the radar screens of the governments involved. A commenter recently noted that the outgoing Roh administration may be going into "legacy mode" and given the Bush administration's struggles in foreign policy elsewhere, it may be doing something similar with regards to North Korea.

The February 13th agreement, of course, did nothing to improve the human rights situation in the North, and it seems like the U.S. government may be unwilling to push any further at this point. Chosun Ilbo reports that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be headed to Pyongyang later this year if progress is made in implementing the Feb. 13 agreement.

Remember this, anyone?



"I said that he was rational, he was...what he is, is isolated. He's not a nut."
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