From the Wall Street Journal:
Tomorrow, China-sponsored six-party talks to disarm North Korea are scheduled to resume in Beijing. This time, there are great expectations that an agreement will be reached. But if there is a deal, it will not be because Chinese diplomats worked behind the scenes. It will be because the
Bush administration has made concessions it previously refused to consider — in particular, releasing frozen North Korean funds, providing aid, and accepting only an interim freeze of the North’s production of plutonium.
American policy makers apparently think that if the U.S. makes the first moves, China will persuade North Korea in the future to completely give up its nuclear arsenal.[Full Text]
