Thursday, May 7, 2009
North Korea articles
The article "A New Policy of Malign Neglect" by Mitchell B. Reiss said that the U.S should deal with North Korea by first telling North Korea that we are willing to resume the Six Party Talks again, but we should be patient and not try to bribe them into coming. Second, we should strengthen our ties with our allies in that region, South Korea and Japan. Third, Reiss suggests that we should try to convince China to join the Proliferation Security Initiative and welcome South Korea into it. The other article, "Be Ready to Strike and Destroy North Korea's Missile Test" by Philip Zelikow, Zelikow says that we need to issue North Korea a warning that if they prepare to launch a missile, the U.S. will destroy it. If the U.S. does strike down a North Korean missile, other volatile countries will take notice. Both articles deal with the same problem, but the second article is much more aggressive than the first. I think that we should try to do what is suggested by Reiss because the U.S. is already involved in two wars right now.