Until I read this quaint little missive that for some reason merited placement on the front page on chron.com, I was quite worried that the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has done more toward arming North Korea than just about anyone outside of North Korea, might be feeling left out. Especially now that his old friends have gone ahead and made official what the whole world knows anyway, that they have the nukes, and are indicating they want more of the same treatment Mr. Carter gave them. You know, the deal he brokered by which the U.S. would give North Korea money and they wouldn't develop their nuclear weapons program. Except that the way it actually worked is they just took the money and went about their business as usual. Now Pyongyang claims that:
1. The U.S. can't be trusted, therefore N.K. needs nukes because they are scared of what the U.S. will do. 2. In spite of #1, N.K. doesn't want to have talks with anyone but the U.S. So South Korea, China, Japan, etc. (ie, those who are most affected) should butt out. 3. N.K. will disarm if the U.S. will give them piles of money.
So let's give them some more money and let Mr. Carter make the arrangements. It worked beautifully the first time, after all, and nothing that could happen would be worse than the hurt feelings Jimmy Carter might experience if he were to be left out.
4:10 PM
