Persona 4 coming to North America this December

Over at the Shin Megami Tensei panel at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Atlus announced the release date for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 in the United states.
The game will be hitting our shores on December 9th, 2008–just in time for Christmas.
[Persona 4 dated in the US! Yes!]