Originally posted by: eskimospy
He's not dead on at all. The Agreed Framework almost certainly delayed North Korea's nuclear ambitions by years. In that case the carrot most certainly worked. Bush did almost nothing to try and reason with North Korea for almost his entire presidency, preferring to stick his fingers in his ears; an incredibly irresponsible and naive plan of action.
Invading and bombing North Korea is not a realistic option. The purpose of the Agreed Framework and any future deal with be to delay North Korea's weapons programs/ability to threaten its neighbors/etc. long enough for Kim Jong Il to die or the regime to collapse. There's no other realistic option.
North Korea is absolutely, 100% reasonable. Their actions are completely logical, and they are very predictable. To brand them as 'unreasonable' is to misunderstand the situation to the detriment of both our countries.
I am not in favor of attacking NK - however, NK has shown that they will make threats to get attention and aid. Promises are then made in return by NK for behaving. This works for a few months/years until NK is stabilized.
Then when NK is no longer shown to be a concern by the West, another crisis seems to be generated.
Rinse and repeat.
However, NK will continually work its nuke program behind the scenes to be ready for the next crisis that it will generate.
As others have stated in this and other threads; NK is like a child that will throw tantrums when it is not getting attentions from others. It acts like it has to be on center stage.
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