The third North-South Summit turned out largely as scripted. With impressive visuals, it produced a wide-ranging declaration of intent which raised plenty of red flags for skeptics.

It is premature to reach a judgment; all of the details will require subsequent negotiations. The central question coming out of the summit is how the North-South track and the nuclear track will be linked.

POISON PILLS?

For conservative critics in both the U.S. and South Korea, the declarationcontained a slew of red flags. First, the declaration managed to not once but twice insert language to the effect that the way forward