Why The U.S. Should Talk To North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. KCNA / Reuters

From Time Magazine:

When Kim Jong Il and the North Korean government get on a roll, they really get on a roll. On April 5, Pyongyang fired a missile disguised as a satellite directly over Japan and into the Pacific, in direct contravention of a 2006 U.N. resolution forbidding the North's ballistic missile program. Then, in a life-imitates-art moment, the U.N. Security Council issued what amounted to a strongly worded letter straight out of Team America: World Police condemning the missile test. The North, in response, called this "an unbearable insult," and said it would again fire up its reactor at Yongbyon, the source of fissile material for the North's suspected small arsenal of nuclear weapons.

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My Comment: People have been talking to North Korea for years .... what is Time Magazine thinking? The problem has always been North Korea .....and their unwillingness to talk or listen.