| | Richard Bush: North Korea is the most opaque regime on the planet, and it is next to impossible to divine the intentions and thinking of its leaders.
That's the problem and the solution. There is no way (and no reason) to negotiate with men who's minds are mush and who's ethics are built on the whim of whatever ghost floats before them – Kim Jung-il's own mind at this point. North Korea is run by a man who enslaves his people; it is a country of men who want to be enslaved.
What to do? Disregard the people and their pope, for starters. Then continue, and possibly gear up, the war machines of Japan and South Korea. They are the only hope for a free and rational Asia at this point. They, Japan and South Korea, can offer an immediate response to the bully.
If North Korea wants to act like the jester of Asia we should laugh at it. If it wants to be the neighborhood bully, it needs a spanking. The US has long taken the former role. It's time for a recasting.
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North Korea is like a dog. If you feed him every time he pees on the rug, then he'll continue to pee on the rug. There's no reason for Kim Jong-il not to pee on our rug.
