KOREAN NEWS
David Frum translates the administration's seemingly dull communique and notices a big policy shift: from U.S. troops as hostages (and hence barriers to any use of force--or, for that matter, anything else that ticks off North Korea--against North Korea's nuclear blackmail) to U.S. troops as, well, troops. I personally wouldn't mind taking them out of South Korea altogether, but if they're going to be there, they ought to be more than hostages.