It appears that the North Koreans have agreed to allow intrusive inspections of its plutonium creating sites to assure the international community that they are being dismantled.The Washington Post is reporting that some details still need to be worked out later this year but that apparently the NoKo's have capitulated on the issue of manufacturing plutonium for bombs.While this is tremendous news, a couple of caveats are in order. First, let's file this one under "We'll believe it when we see it." Kim and his henchmen have a nasty habit of getting very close to agreements and then changing the parameters of what is being negotiated at the last minute. Let's see if he does that this time.Second, the agreement does not encompass other efforts by the North Koreans to enrich uranium to bomb grade levels. This is ostensibly already under IAEA supervision but many like John Bolton have complained that the inspections regimen isn't intrusive enough and leaves some room for the...(Read Full Post)