Monday, January 13, 2003
GIVE 'EM ANOTHER CHANCE. So says an editorial in the Korea Herald. Money graf:
Critics will say this amounts to appeasement. But I am hard pressed to come up with many cases in which a hard-line resulted in sincere changes in behavior.
The United States is urged to take this opportunity to engage North Korea again as it did after Pyongyang announced back in March 1993 that it was dropping out of the NPT. As a result of subsequent talks, the United States kept North Korea from developing plutonium-based weapons until now. What can it lose if it should give the communist state another chance to deliver on its promise?
Critics will say this amounts to appeasement. But I am hard pressed to come up with many cases in which a hard-line resulted in sincere changes in behavior.
