Eerie silence

摘要

Another deadline, another disap-pointment. Last February North Korea agreed with four of its neighbours and the United States to give up its ambitions as a nuclear power in return for lashings of aid and rehabilitation from its standing as an international pariah. Crucial to the deal was North Korea's subsequent promise to declare all its nuclear activities by December 31st. The deadline came. It went. From Pyongyang, not a squeak.