Bush and Roh go sour!

The recent Asia pacific summit ended on a sour note for both the United States president as well as for the president of South Korea.while they were having a press opp session,Roh Moo-hyun,the president of South Korea requested Bush to end the Korean war.if you remember this war is actually still going on as only a truce was declared at the end of this one and no treaty of any kind was signed.the president Bush made it clear to mr.Roh that he cannot contemplate it until and unless the North Korean leader,Kim Jong Il has totally given up his weapons and his drive for nuclear weapons.well, for some reason,mr.Roh's translator was not doing a good job as mr.Roh repeatedly asked Bush to clarify his position which naturally would have been irritating to anyone.but of course the question that is begging to be asked is why this query and why now all of a sudden?North Korea is still aggressive and shows no sign of changing its posture vis-a-vis South Korea and the rest of the world.anyway the exchange is being labelled as a translator problem and not much is being read into it.but i am sure that the question 'why now?' is going through the minds of many of the policy think tanks in the United States!

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North Korea de-Fangs!

North Korea has shot down one of its main nuclear reactors,thus giving peace a change as well as the possibility of both Korea's merging into one.but of course thats too far into the future so lets see what happens.anyway for the present moment the chief U.S. nuclear envoy expressed optimism after a day of meetings Tuesday with his North Korean counterpart, saying no new obstacles to progress on disarmament have emerged following Pyongyang's shutdown of its sole operating reactor.
With Pyongyang taking such a move well for one thing Japan as well as South Korea can now rest a little bit easier.of course credit should also go to the Chinese without whom this would not have been possible.now all that remains to be seen is how far would
Pyongyang go to appease the Allied Forces as regards its nuclear arsenal.it is rumored that North Korea has already an operable nuclear bomb.well,now that Pyongyang has taken this step one can only hope that North Korea would continue the rest of the path to peace and prosperity!