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From the way it looked, the United Nations is using a new kind of international diplomacy, which when further scrutinized could be misconstrued as a way of pampering North Korea into opening up its doors to U.N. nuclear inspectors. And as a gift for North Korea's softened stance, the U.N. has rewarded it with a tanker of oil as part of a six-nation deal that would eventually stop its nuclear development projects. The Los Angeles Times said today that this is the first time that U.N. experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency were allowed entry into this hermit kingdom, whose economic survival was suspected to be sourced out from its illegal trade of counterfeits, drugs and missiles to some oil-rich Middle East countries. Under the agreement, North Korea is expected to receive an estimated 50,000 tons of oil in exchange for the shutting down of its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Many people knew first hand that what the U.N. did was a strategic way of encouraging the rogue commu...