By J. Berkshire Miller
The U.S. State Department announced yesterday that it had reached an agreement with North Korea to suspend its uranium enrichment activities and implement a moratorium on its long range missile and nuclear tests. In return, Washington has committed to sending 240,000 tons of food aid to Pyongyang. But perhaps more importantly, at the insistence of North Korea, the United States included in their statement that “it does not have hostile intent toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and is prepared to take steps to improve our bilateral relationship in the spirit of mutual respect for sovereignty and equality.” While this isn’t a security guarantee, it still fulfills Pyongyang’s long standing demand to negotiate under the auspices of co-existence rather than regime change.
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