McFreedom

Reuters has an article on North Korea's latest sabre rattling. It's amazing, even for Reuters. It provides a run-down of the crisis:

"If the United States did not kick up a nuclear row and the construction of an atomic power plant ... had progressed by the country itself as scheduled, the electricity problem would have already been solved fully," KCNA said, referring to the North's plans to build two nuclear reactors a decade ago.

Construction was frozen after the IAEA and the United States raised suspicions that Pyongyang was extracting plutonium to make weapons. North Korea denied it was making atomic weapons but refused to allow verification...

North Korea was to have been compensated for freezing the reactor construction with monthly shipments of fuel oil and the Western-financed building of two light-water reactors from which it would be difficult to extract weapons-grade fissile material. But after the latest crisis flared in October, the oil shipments were halted and the reactor project fell into limbo.

The article, with such helpful background, gives no information on why the crisis "flared." It was, of course, because North Korea, which "was to have been compensated for freezing the reactor construction," was compensated but didn't freeze construction. There is literally not a word in defense of the US in this article - no explanation of why the "oil shipments were halted," no quotes from the US that they are not planning an invasion, nothing. This from the group so objective they won't call OBL a terrorist?

I also love the part where they say that Pyongyang called "the IAEA the 'cat's paw' of the United States." Yeah, boy, they've sure done whatever we told 'em to in Iraq, that's for sure...