Workers are Going Home (x4)

The White House, stuck between a rock and a hard place with North Korea, still hasn't lost its spirit:

The United States and its key allies agreed Wednesday to suspend construction of two nuclear power plants in North Korea, saying that the energy-starved communist state won't get them unless it gives up its nuclear weapons program.

...The four-member executive board of the KEDO met in New York on Monday and Tuesday and discussed suspending the project. The board said it would make its final announcement before Nov. 21 after consulting with the member nations' governments.

Halting the project looked inevitable Wednesday, as all four board members favored pulling out hundreds of workers, many of them South Koreans, who have been digging and pouring concrete to build the reactors in the isolated northeastern corner of North Korea.

Washington says it sees "no future" for the project.


Only one step towards knocking Kim Jong-Il and his merry band of murderers out of power, but it's in exactly the right direction.

BY THE WAY: The title is from "My Name is Jonas," off of Weezer's blue album. I'm sure you've noticed that those shady spamware-and-popup-window companies appear to have amassed the lyrics for thousands of popular songs on scores of different websites. So here's the real question: does it creep you out as much as it does me?

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