Herr Bush caves in to Pyongyang

In a dead pan voice Herr Bush announced today [26 June 2008] that he is lifting sanctions of Trading with the enemy act against North Korea, and is calling on Congress to remove it from the list of terrorist states. For it part, North Korea handed over in Beijing a [full?] report of its nuclear activity as they promised to do in October 2007. Thus in the roller coaster ride of Herr Bush's opportunistic policy of dealing with the Kim Jong il regime, which pushed Pyongyang to explode an atomic device thereby making it the world's 9 country to possess nuclear weapons, Herr Bush had to throw in the towel and agree to terms that it could have had with less confrontation, hawkish posturing, and tin sheriff clean up the town attitude, 7 years ago. Thus, one panel of Herr Bush's foreign policy adventurism bites the dust utterly. It follows willy nilly that the establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Pyongyang should follow. Herr Bush's announcement spells the political demise of South Korea's Lee Myung bak whose people are calling for his resignation owing to his decision to allow reimportation of US beef. Lee scuttled Seoul's Sunshine policy to please Herr Bush and to talk cold war rhetoric to firm up Washington's loosening of ties to its South Korean ally for the simple reason Herr Bush didn't cotton up to an opening towards Pyongyang. And now bye bye Lee as Herr Bush is doing the very same thing! Herr Bush's Nordpolitik dooms his brass knuckles approach towards Iran, who sees how effective and fruitful Pyongyang's handling of Herr Bush was. Herr Bush may think that he's scored a win win situation, but think again, he dropped the ball and had to settle for the appearance of a skilful mating of the North Korean king. He didn't.