"North Korea is on the verge of becoming a nuclear weapon state. Yet, after a decade of concerted effort by Democrats and Republicans to keep the Koreas non-nuclear, the Bush administration has apparently decided either that a nuclear North Korea is not so bad, or that nothing can be done to prevent it. Both assumptions are dangerously wrong and the failure of the Bush administration's policy toward North Korea is a legacy the world will be forced to confront long after Iraq fades from the headlines."
Not engaging N. Korea is like handing it a loaded weapon http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0227/p09s01-coop.html
Far from submitting to blackmail, the international community would be creating conditions under which the North Koreans would be willing to give up their nuclear weapons, once and for all:
. By extending the tools, including technical assistance and funding, to dismantle their weapon capabilities.
. By showing that there are other means to get what they want in the realms of security, energy development, and economic progress.
. By defining a pathway that will give them a decent relationship with their neighbors and with key actors in the international community.
Doug
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