Quid quo wacko

The Washington Post has an article about the North Korea nuclear two-step:

A day after the Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist, the country announced that it would resume tearing down its main nuclear plant.
In Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday that work to disable the Yongbyon nuclear plant would resume, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea, which stunned the word by testing a small nuclear device in 2006, agreed last year to disable the plant as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal. This summer, the country turned over documents detailing some of its nuclear programs, and Bush, in response, said he would take it off the US terrorism list, if the full extent of North Korean nuclear activities could be verified by outside inspectors. But for months North Korea balked at verification, and the Bush administration refused to budge on the list.
North Korea then took steps to begin rebuilding the Yongbyon plant. It also barred inspectors from the plant and appeared to prepare for another nuclear test. Three days of negotiations between the North and Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill in Pyongyang this month led to a compromise. U.S. officials said Saturday that the North had bent on potential access to its facilities and on permission for inspectors to take environmental samples, as well as to allow Japan and South Korea to be part of the inspection process.
In the statement on Sunday, North Korea's Foreign Ministry said: "We welcome the U.S. which has honored its commitment to delist [North Korea] as a state sponsor of terrorism." The Foreign Ministry said it will again allow inspections by the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency at Yongbyon.

Rico says we should've used the Israeli solution and reduced the damn thing to rubble, but this is tidier...