Kim Jong-Un PHOTO: Reuters
Don't Engage Kim Jong Un -- Bankrupt Him -- Joshua Stanton and Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Policy
It's time to play hardball with North Korea's new leader.
Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain clearly agree on one thing: Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt should not have visited Pyongyang this week. A State Department spokeswoman said last week that the timing, coming just four weeks after a rocket launch that violated three U.N. Security Council Resolutions, was not helpful. McCain tweeted that Richardson and Schmidt were "useful idiots." Richardson is among the staunchest advocates of appeasing North Korea after billions of dollars in U.S. and South Korean aid have bought little more than attacks, provocations, threats, and broken promises to disarm.
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My Comment: This is an appropriate policy to confront the North Korean leader .... but China is not going to play ball and bankrupt Kim Jong Un.
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