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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187069)	5/22/2006 11:14:06 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Absolutely.. The more governments that have a political stake in the negotiations, the more likely that, if only to sheer "peer pressure" politics, no one wants to be seen as being the nation that "broke the deal". Have you been living under a rock? When there's a diplomatic failure. No one steps up to the plate and takes any responsibiity. The fingers point. This is no different. It will be North Korea's fault. Then there's the personal dynamics of multiple players. ~My idea is better than your idea...No, my idea is better than your idea. From a different perspective....Your idea would have been good if I thought of it first. And it's the State Department/Foreign Ministy's job to broker these international agreements. And they have an interest in being sucessful. My experience with the State department can confirm that. They have an interest in brokering an agreement. They don't particularly care whether it's a good agreement. Just as long as there is an agreement. We sometimes wondered out loud as to who's side were they on. But it doesn't matter if he was serious or not.. Because clearly his son WAS NOT serious and felt no compulsion to adher to an agreement that he had not PERSONALLY signed off on. I don't think it would make any difference if Jr. had personally signed off. If Kim wants to break an agreement he'll break it. You might even be able to support an argument that he's pathological about breaking agreements. It's a perverse way of demonstrating that he's in control [in his own mind]. jttmab