US ready to drop NKorea from list of state sponsors of terrorism - Having nukes makes the difference

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL3190702020070901

U.S., North Korea meet for one-on-one nuclear talks

GENEVA (Reuters) - Top negotiators from the United States and North Korea met on Saturday for two days of talks meant to advance an international drive to end Pyongyang's nuclear program.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill and his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan did not speak to the press on arrival at the U.S. mission in Geneva, where the first day of the weekend talks began.

Their session, aimed at normalizing relations between the countries that fought each other in the 1950-53 Korean War, is expected to focus on how the Stalinist state will disable and account for its nuclear facilities, as promised in a February "six-party" deal.

Hill has also signaled Washington was ready to talk about dropping North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. That designation imposes a ban on arms-related sales and keeps North Korea from getting some types of aid.

We would have never invaded Iraq with all its oil reserves if they had nukes either.

I think it was the nukes.

Don

They are getting dropped from the list so the Repugs can use that as an example of how the War on Terror is going so well. Just in time for 2008. Yet they still sell their Technology. Being so remote its safe to take them off the list, as long as we have 50,000 troops on the Border and a Navy roaming their shores.