According to CNN:
The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
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McCormack said the United States and North Korea had reached agreement “on an number of important verification measures” of North Korea’s nuclear program.
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“Every element of verification that we sought is included [...]

According to John McCreary (author of NightWatch), U.S. officials are assisting North Korea by drafting their nuclear declaration for them:
…according to well informed analysts[,] US officials are drafting the North Korean declaration of its nuclear facilities – the handful that are being declared – which will put North Korea in compliance with its [...]

Apparently someone in the KPA Threat Department didn’t realize that ashes logically follow fire when attempting to make one of the standard threats sound more menacing:
North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul’s top military officer said his country would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a [...]

Is Roh insane or on drugs? It’s no longer just a rhetorical question as Roh recently made a string of comments that call into question either his grip on reality or experimentation with mind altering chemicals. And there is a huge difference between Roh and the gaffes made by Bush; Roh actually means what he’s [...]

It’s been awhile since my criminology courses, but I recall that a basic tenet is that for it to be an effective deterrent, the punishment must be appropriate and timely, a point evidently lost on South Korean officials (h/t Marmot) who are behaving more like their North Korean counterparts:
South Korea will confiscate $27 million worth [...]

Update: Also see Joshua’s post on this at OFK.
Original post: The first thing I thought when I read this report (h/t BesottedTom) was, “shouldn’t it be illegal for North Korea to export goods to the U.S.? [The answer is no, see below.] So it seem that those in the U.S. will be able to purchase [...]

Update 3: Hot Air has a new thread asking the question, “Was Cho schizophrenic, “mean,” or both?” The continuing trend is to focus on the individual in the States, and the ethnicity in Korea.
Update 2:

Cho Seung-hui posted a warning on a V-Tech online forum, “”im going to kill people at vtech today,” before [...]

Final update: Any new information will get a new post.
The WaPo has a good summary of the entire event. Also don’t miss the post on this at OneFreeKorea.
Of intererest but not related to this specific story is that of Woo Bum-Kon (우범근), a “a Korean police officer who carried out the worst incident of spree [...]

Jerry Springer has nothing on North Korea - the rabbits aren’t going:
The offspring of the 12 giant rabbits were supposed to help to feed starving North Koreans. . . amid concerns that they have been eaten by the country’s leaders, Mr Szmolinsky will not be sending any more.
The 68-year-old breeder had been due to travel [...]

WaPo lumps Ayaan Hirsi Ali along with Camille Paglia and Michael Moore (!!!) as being one of “idiosyncratic, opinionated, talented, flawed, impossible… iconoclasts, troublemakers, provocateurs, opportunists, polemicists.”
What???!!!
Let’s review who Ayaan Hirsi Ali is:
She scripted an 11-minute film about the Koran and domestic abuse of women that resulted in the throat-slitting assassination of its director, Theo [...]