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Yes, the shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor was good news.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)

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Yes, the shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor was good news. But Kim Jong Il's threat has been reduced just barely, and the flaws in the February 13 deal between North Korea and the other participants in the six-party talks remain all too apparent. Thanks to A. Q. Khan, the highly entrepreneurial Pakistani nuclear scientist, Kim still owns uranium-enrichment equipment. And then there's the arsenal of atomic bombs he has already built. The deal reopened to Kim the conduits of foreign aid that keep his regime afloat while doing nothing to address these menaces. Defenders of the deal urge that Kim is still largely frozen out of the ...

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