It may be premature to discuss the results of the recent six-party talks at this stage. One reason for that is that all observers agree that North Korea's nuclear report is not complete. No consensus has been reached on a method of verifying the credibility of the report.
Nevertheless, whether the United States will remove that country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism will not be known until Aug. 11.
Another reason is that outsiders cannot predict the results of a reinvestigation of the abduction issue, which North Korea has promised Japan. If the abduction issue makes major progress, it would change the evaluation of the U.S. decision to remove the North from its terror-sponsoring list.