Their lips are moving
You can tell when a politician is lying because their lips are moving. And so it is with North Korea. N. Korea Agrees to Stop Building Nukes.
While the negotiators might be acting in good faith, Kim Jong Il will not give up his paranoia so easily. I fully expect them to continue with whatever nuclear program they currently have, despite any promises to the contrary. Hence the title to this post.
We are still technically at war with the North Koreans, we just agreed to a cease fire in 1953. No negotiated end to the conflict has been reached.
The DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) as how North Korea is officially known, is neither Democratic nor a Republic. It is a multi-generational dictatorship with no economy, reports of starvation and cannibalism and so on. Not too long ago I saw a night time picture from space of the Korean Peninsula, and South Korea was awash in light and activity. The North was the exact opposite. It was 99% dark, only a few spots here and there. The DPRK has no economy to speak of and the citizens must be constantly taught how wonderful their lives are.
Such a wonderful place, don't you agree?