US sounds sour notes on North Korea

Seoul, South Korea -- Despite a symbolic symphonic thaw with North Korea, the only music the Bush administration is making here is with South Korea's new, pro-U.S. president who has vowed a tougher line on his Stalinist neighbor. (Snip) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was next door in Seoul on Monday lauding President Lee Myung-bak and his intent to hold North Korea to its pledge to abandon nuclear weapons.

[keep its pledge?!! How unfair! - oh, the inhumanity - more cowboy diplomacy ... {ad infinitum}. Another country that's never kept a pledge in its history - while receiving American tax dollars year in and year out.]

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