It is hard to believe that the United States has been obliged by its incompetent diplomats to make concessions desperately sought by the North namely, ending the application to North Korea of the Trading with the Enemy Act and removing it from the State Department list of terrorist-sponsoring nations for so little in return.

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For instance, are any questions ever raised about travel to Iran, Syria or Sudan, three countries on the State Department's list of terrorist sponsoring nations?

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State legislators have taken the lead in informing the public about the benefits of divesting from the economies of nations such as Iran, Syria, and Sudan which are all on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist sponsoring nations.

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Both nations have long been on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring nations.

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This was never the standard by which a nation found itself on the US State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring nations and implies that, unless a dictator is found directly ordering a terrorist attack, that dictator cannot be considered as linked to a terrorist group.

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But on the Indian Subcontinent at least, intelligence agencies of more than one nation continue to wage covert wars by training and financing terrorists whose bombs claims scores of innocent lives each year (significantly, they do not appear on the U.S. State Department's annual list of countries sponsoring terrorism).

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DARPA, the American Defence Department's technology agency, is also sponsoring research into power beaming.

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