<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419686284013_27957" dir="ltr">The Associated Press (AP) has just announced that Japan, South Korea and the United States would sign their first joint intelligence-sharing pact on December 29th to better cope with North Korea's increasing nuclear and missile threats. The AP has just written the first sentence of the Postscript to my up-coming book on the history of North Korea's nuclear program.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419686284013_27957" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419686284013_27957" dir="ltr">-- Bill Streifer</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419686284013_27957" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>