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Anthony wrote some good information about the bombs in North Korea. I actually learned something from it. He named every country which has something to do with this thing with the bombs. I think that the reason that the other countries also are affected, does not really makes a lot of sense to me. However, he did make a good presentation  out of it. He had to do it without his page on the screen. He did a good job on that. When I read his blog, I did not learn something new, because he nicely told everything in class. The things he said about how he is going to help if he was directly involved did not make sense to me either. He also forgot to tell us how the whole world is effected, because i think that people in Frace for example wont have any problems because of it. However, I think that he made a very well presentation.

Hill said he had yet to hear a response from North Korea to the release of $25 million held in a Macau bank. Macau authorities said earlier this week the money is available for account holders to access, but it remained unclear when North Korea might do so.

Although time is running short before a Saturday deadline set in a February agreement in which North Korea pledged to take initial steps to disarm, Hill maintained it was “possible to get going on this process in the next two days.”

South Korean nuclear envoy Chun Young-woo called for patience Thursday and said other countries should wait “another few days” until North Korea responds, noting it typically does not respond quickly.

Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate, returned Wednesday from a four-day mission to North Korea to bring back six sets of remains believed to be of American soldiers from the Korean War. His delegation included the top White House adviser on Korea, Victor Cha.

On Wednesday, Richardson said North Korea had pledged to welcome UN nuclear inspectors within a day of receiving its funds, but had wanted to extend a Saturday deadline for shutting down its main nuclear reactor by 30 days - which the US delegation rejected.

Cha told reporters Thursday that any extension of the deadline would have to be agreed upon by all countries in the six-nation arms talks: China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the two Koreas. 

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday the United States had “gone the extra mile” to resolve the bank issue. He repeated the United States’ expectation that North Korea will meet the shutdown deadline, and refused to speculate on consequences for the North if it fails to do so.