For more the 20 years, we have had a problem with out negotiations with the DPRK (North Korea).<\/p>\n
We haven’t even been able to end the Korean War.*<\/sup><\/p>\n The problem is that one of the parties is not negotiations is not acting in good faith, and engages in meaningless posturing, threats of dire consequences, and a general lack of seriousness.<\/p>\n The other, of course, is the DPRK.<\/p>\n Since the Clinton administration stiffed the DPRK on formal diplomatic relations in 2004, the US has refused face to face negotiations, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hell, I don’t know why, but it appears that Donald Trump finds this similarly absurd<\/a>:<\/p>\n Presumptive US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is willing to meet North Korea’s leader to discuss its nuclear programme.<\/span> Because talking with people instead of threatening them works so well?<\/p>\n The DPRK has tested nukes, probably including a boosted fission device<\/a>, and they have conducted launches of SLBMs<\/a> in the 22 years since we promised to exchange ambassadors.<\/p>\n Talking to someone is not a reward. Rewarding someone is a reward.<\/p>\n In fact, talking to Donald Trump is one of my definitions of cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n The Washington, DC consensus on the DPRK is nuts, and stupid, and nuts.<\/p>\n Trump is right here, a generation of US diplomats are wrong.<\/p>\n BTW, f%$# the Donald for being right, and f%$# the idiots at Foggy Bottom for making him right.<\/p>\n
<\/span>“I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” the businessman said of Kim Jong-un.<\/span>
<\/span>Such a meeting would mark a significant change of US policy towards the politically isolated regime.<\/span>
<\/span>Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton decried Mr Trump’s “bizarre fascination with foreign strongmen”.<\/span>
<\/span>The statement, delivered by one of her aides, added that Mr Trump’s foreign policy “made no sense”.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n