North Korea has now achieved one of its most-prized objectives: removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. In exchange, the U.S. has received "promises" on verification that are vague and amount to an agreement to negotiate the critical points later.

The NK delisting is HUGE. The question of whether they got everything they needed from this seems open but I would be very, very surprised if the Bush Administration lowered sanctions on NK prematurely.