Letter to editor submitted 2/14/07 North Korea's "Poverty" led to Deal

All Americans (and most Koreans) are pleased that North Korea has agreed to a permanent dismantling of their nuclear facilities in exchange for President Bush lifting the freeze on their accounts in a Macau Bank and other sanctions. It’s a carrot and stick, or trust but verify method using international bodies to verify compliance that rewards the Koreans after they change behavior, not before they act as we did in the 90's. The reporting by the AP (reporter Burt Herman) however is laughable in the sense that instead of giving credit to our President for his steadfast insistence on 6 nation talks that provided the needed pressure to reach this agreement - as opposed to the Clinton model of one on one nation talks that the democrats in Congress have been insisting on - the AP says the agreement was due to the "North's Poverty" and the new Democrat majority in Congress! North Korea's poverty has been brutally enforced since the 50's by the tyrannical family in charge of the country and the Democrats have been against the President's negotiations from the start. Give President Bush credit for what he accomplishes instead of twisting the "news" to fit a bias ...please! Bill Richardson MADISON, WI.