NK Update

After the break off of the 6 party talks last week due to the DPRK's demand that the 25 million in the Macao bank be returned to them, we were assured that it was only a technical glitch, and that soon talks would resume after our Treasury experts visited Beijing and straightened everything out.

So, super T-man Daniel Glaser goes to Beijing with with an entourage of five, including:

...Jim Wilkinson, Treasury's chief of staff, and Jim Freis, Treasury's deputy assistant general counsel and incoming director of the Treasury's financial crimes enforcement network.

Glaser arrives in Beijing (Reuters)

And with all this heavy firepower, and Mr. Glaser's sunglasses, what was the result?

Daniel Glaser, deputy U.S. assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, met Chinese and North Korean officials in Beijing earlier this week to discuss the transfer, but no significant progress was reported.

The DPRK as supposed to shut down their reactor within sixty days of the 'agreement'. Since then they have stated, no moola, no shutdown. Treasury waited thirty days (the maximum) before announcing that they had thrown a wrench into the works, now two more weeks have passed. At least the South Koreans remain optimistic, though I can't imagine why.