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ks, that also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.While there's little
expectation that the North Korean regime would agree to give up its
nuclear deterrent -- which it probably views as key to its very
survival -- the U.S. hopes that talks could help slow the weapons'
development and discourage future provocations.In the past five months, the diplomatic track
has yielded little in the way of concrete results, but it has,
at least, gathered some momentum.Washington has held two rounds of exploratory talks
and a third round appeared imminent. The U.S. also appears ready to
resume badly needed food aid that Pyongyang requested nearly a year ago.
U.S. officials discussed the monitoring of the possible assistance with North Korean
officials during two days of meetings in Beijing last week.While Washington would
deny any connection, food aid could serve as a sweetener for getting
the North to agree to terms for a resumption of the disarmament
talks, such a
f pushing through the payroll tax measure over conservative objections in order
to keep the pressure on the Senate. In fact, it was the
passage of the House version of the payroll holiday that convinced Democrats
to go ahead and fund the government.While he may have discussed a
failsafe option of a short extension, it seems unlikely that Boehner would
have climbed down so quickly after his victory. Furthermore, the idea that
any negotiator would take the first counteroffer with the deadline for talks
still weeks away is just silly.Congress never does anything before it absolutely
has to or until it starts to inconvenience its members, so that
suggests that there are at least five days this week before the
standoff begins to imperil Christmas plans and 13 days before anything happens
to workers paychecks. The House Republicans have long expected to be working
this week and clearly have no intention of reaching a compromise until
their time has run out.Plus, Rep
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