[Ready4Freddy]

"does not seem in any hurry to strike a bargain as long as Pyongyang does not export nuclear arms to a third party or pose a direct threat to the United States itself."

Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and the author of the Cato policy analysis "Two Normal Countries: Rethinking the U.S.-Japan Strategic Relationship." His e-mail address is cpreble@cato.org.

[Ready4Freddy]

ping

[arthurus]

when an impoverished and increasingly desperate North Korea might be tempted to sell nuclear materials to terrorists.

Tempted? Isn't this pretty much a given? A major component of their nuclear armw program is sales to the highest bidder. They have to do things like that if we actually put a crimp in their profitible drug trade and printing trade ($100 dollar bills).