Last night I wrote:
Kim Jong-il and associates are watching closely to see what an overstretched US military, an out of gas Presidential Administration and an hungry for oil Japan will give Iran (if anything at all) and they are making it clear that they will settle for nothing less than the same. And there is little we can do about it.
Well, guess what? KCNA (6th item) today recylced this article from Richard Armitage in which he says, "If we don't talk with the North in a similar fashion, I think we look silly."
Then again, that's really never stopped Bush, has it?
For a really scathing overview of our policy see this.
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No. Korea broke that agreement and went ahead anyway in secret and made the bomb. Why would they keep an agreement with us again?
Bush's policy to use the 6 party talks with neighborhood nations made sense. The idea being that No. Korea would find it harder to break an agreement with several nations, than to just break their word again with us. Why should we go it alone again if it didn't work before?
Why does No. Korea not want to have a multi-country agreement? What is it that makes that so bad? What is it they have to be afraid of or hide? Why is the US made to look silly in articles as opposed to No. Korea that has already proven it can't be trusted?
I don't know the answer to these questions, or how long we should wait before caving in, but somehow we are being convinced that EVERYTHING is messed up on this because of Bush. That it is the US that is being difficult. I personally think the only way to get any kind of guarantee from No. Korea is to get the weight of their biggest allies involved, which includes China. I don't know, I could be all wet, but geez.....