good international news

- the afghan parliamentary elections don't appear to have received the media coverage adequate to importance. afghan president Hamid Karzai sums up

"We are making history. It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people. After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions."

- meanwhile, as for the north korea nuke breakthrough [bugmenot login], i'm not optimistic....given the shaky history