Anju Links for 4/5

The New York Sun has more on the “supernotes” found at U.N. Headquarters  and the investigation that follows.

It looks like North Korea will fail to meet the April 13 deadline to shut down its reactor at Yongbyon.  Chris Hill is still  saying he’s “confident” that North Korea can meet it, meaning that he still expects them to.  The Chinese are not so optimistic.

Our capitulations strengthen our enemies.  Roh’s popularity rises following a the signing of an FTA that he hardly seemed to want and never really defended, though his country seems to have had its way nonetheless.  I wonder how much of the role the February 13th capitulation had in this.  Some, I suspect.

Mingi Hyun (Maritime Asia on my blogroll) sends this very comprehensive FTA rundown.

Why would Al Qaeda want to kill the Dalai Lama?

Filling a Journalistic Void:   There are several must read new reports from Iraq this week.  First, Bill Ardolino caps his blog tour of the battlefront with this post summarizing his observations. Father and son Bill and Owen West report on the promising news that Al Qaeda is wearing out its welcome among the Sunni tribes of Anbar.  Michelle Malkin has much, much  more, mostly on how things are going in Baghdad.