LET'S CONTAIN OUR EXCITEMENT

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BEIJING - "North Korea agreed today to rejoin six-country nuclear disarmament talks, the Chinese and U.S. governments said in a surprise diplomatic breakthrough that came just three weeks after the North conducted its first known atomic test blast.

The agreement was struck in three-way talks between the senior envoys from the United States, China and North Korea at an unpublicized meeting at a government guesthouse in Beijing.

The U.S. negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said the six-country negotiations would likely resume in November or December.

'We took a step today toward getting this process back on track. This process has suffered a lot in recent weeks by the actions the DPRK has made,' Hill told reporters afterward, using the initials for the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." Continue story.

I won't believe it until it happens, and even then, have little hope that anything of substance will come of it.