North Korea – Abdication?

ARTICLE: Bush’s North Korea Nuclear Abdication
(Wall Street Journal)…John R. Bolton, May 8, 2008, Pg. 15

Despite rising Capitol Hill opposition to its North Korea policy, the Bush administration continues to find new and imaginative ways to accommodate Pyongyang’s sensitivities. Meanwhile, the administration’s Democratic congressional allies are urgently pushing to waive the Glenn Amendment, which bars essentially all U.S. economic and military aid to the North.

Mr. Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations” (Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2007).

Application of SMART Power is challenging. One one side are advocates that are optimistic that dialogue and negotiation will lead to positive change. On the other hand, you have those that look at the history and take any promised change from NK with a great deal of skepticism and mistrust.