Its Time To Appease North Korea Once Again

Soon after North Korea launched its latest rocket, President Barack Obama had strong words for the rogue nation. Obama said: “Rules must be binding, violations must be punished, words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.”

Sounds great doesn't it? Just don't confuse that political rhetoric with stark reality. There will be no meaningful international response. The words and resulting Resolutions of the United Nations have no meaning. Expect the appeasement of North Korea by the international community to once again be the political end game.

After last weeks rocket launch, the United Nations convened an immediate meeting of the Security Council to do what it does each time Kim Jong-Il demands appeasement. It works to puts meaningless words to paper. The last useless United Nations Resolution 1718 (October 2006 ) demanded that North Korea refrain from conducting any further tests of ballistic missiles.

However, this time China will veto any international response in the Security Council and as a result not even a meaningless Resolution from the United Nations looks to be forthcoming.

Of course the appeasement of North Korea is nothing new and has been ongoing for nearly two decades. It began when President Clinton used former President Jimmy Carter to negotiate a treaty to stop North Korea's developing nuclear program. The resulting agreement began two decades of appeasement of the man ( Kim Jong-il) often referred to as the "Dear Leader".

Carter met with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang and returned to America with an agreement that was suppose to produce peace in our time. North Korea according to Carter, had agreed to stop all their nuclear weapons development.

The Clinton appeasement program for North Korea included hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, food, oil and even a nuclear reactor. However, the agreement was so flawed that it even lacked the most informal means of verification.

In return, Kim Jong-il elected to starve over one million of his people while using American aid and China's assistance to build uranium bombs. The appeasement dance of the international community and North Korea has continued ever since.

Prior to the launch of the latest North Korean rocket, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned North Korea that: "There will be consequences," referring to possible UN Security Council actions. She would also add: "Japan has every right to protect and defend its territory".

The Secretary of State's mention of Japan was not any diplomatic accident. In an effort to avoid an arms race in Asia, the U.S. has often told India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan that they should not develop nuclear weapons.

But allowing Japan to develop a nuclear weapon for protection would change the dynamics in Asia since China fears the development of Japan as a nuclear power. However, an Asia in which Japan has a nuclear weapon is probably not in Barack Obama’s global non-nuclear proliferation plan.

So, the launch of that rocket over the Pacific Ocean has a singular meaning in the international community as well as for the third straight United States Presidential Administration. It means that its time to appease the Dear Leader (Kim Jong-il) of North Korea once again.

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