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\"\"<\/a>The appropriately abbreviated SoS Clinton announced today<\/a> that US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Bosworth will make his first trip to North Korea next week. The Czar finds it interesting, at any rate, that North Korea has its own US Special Representative, which gives Py\u00f4ngyang the same level of non-voting representation as the residents of Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Bosworth, as link-clickers might read (or you could just take the Czar\u2019s word for it), believes \u201cNorth Korea is inclined to continue dialogue with the United States and regional powers on its nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Czar, of course, is not at all confident with Ambassador Bosworth\u2019s enthusiasm. Take, for example, the DPRK\u2019s own Korean Central News Agency, whose Pulitzer-bound coverage of POTUS Obama\u2019s inauguration is slightly more tempered<\/a>. Okay, you want<\/i> to click on that link, trust me.<\/p>\n

Bosworth added, \u201cI found the North Koreans, I thought, quite inclined toward continued dialogue with the United States….\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, again, the Czar is not so optimistic. Yes, they want to talk. And talk. And talk. And stall and stall. No one is confident this will solve much. Nor are the North Koreans<\/a>, who state that \u201cthe U.S. bellicose forces would be well advised to face up to the trend of the times.\u201d The Czar never expected to agree with the KCNA on anything<\/i>, so this is a bit of a first.<\/p>\n

Placating the North Koreans is a losing game. Negotiation with the North is inherently impossible, because negotation assumes that the other party has an equal interest in reaching a satisfactory conclusion; negotiation assumes the other side is reasonable and can identify logical gain. The sad truth, the very trend that our State Department would be well advised to face up to, is that North Korea is the deranged parent holding a gun to his own head while screaming to the police below, as his family cowers in terror at his feet. We had the opportunity to contain<\/i> the damage, at least, until the late 1990s. However, kindly smiling and asking them to put down the gun and let the kids go, at least, provided them time to get a vastly longer range weapon and bigger payloads. We can neither reason nor contain. We can only watch and wait for now, and continuously remind them that anything less than conformity to the wishes of the US, Japan, China, and of course the South is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

As for Ambassador Bosworth\u2019s gleeful goal of equal diplomacy with the North? \u201cNow obviously I was not there speaking for the United States, was not there as an official representative….\u201d Let us hope not. The last time we tried to let them off the leash, they demonstrated their defiance by letting millions of their own people starve to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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