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JOSHUA STANTON: Christopher Hill: Deep Kimchee for Iraq: Of the many things that will be written?

By Glenn Reynolds

JOSHUA STANTON: Christopher Hill: Deep Kimchee for Iraq:

Of the many things that will be written about North Korea this week, the least likely of these is, ?Now there?s the kind of diplomacy we need more of.? Consider just the events of the last few days: the missile test itself, which may have hit closer to home than originally thought; the failure of the United Nations to enforce two of its violated resolutions; the broader failure of deterrence and counter-proliferation; and North Korea?s final repudiation of a February 2007 agreement in which it had agreed to verifiably dismantle all of its nuclear programs. North Korea now says that it will restart an dilapidated old 5-megawatt reactor that it took limited steps toward disabling in 2008. It will also boycott six-party disarmament talks again ? this time for good, it says.

It’s hard to pursue effective diplomacy with someone who knows you won’t hurt them, and who doesn’t care what you think.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).