[r9etb]

Think of the precedent such behavior potentially establishes. If we succumb to the North's demands, then what do we do with the Taliban?Iran? Let them attack anything and everyone because we don't "respect" their right to negotiate better deals for their people, then we sheepishly come to the bargaining table? Such logic is rooted in naïve foreign relations.

Mr. Armstrong may not have noticed that we've been succumbing to NK's demands for a long time, or at least let them get away with what would be intolerable elsewhere, and yet it has not set a precedent in other parts of the world.

Any subsequent argument based on "avoiding a precedent" is fatally flawed.

I think pretty much everybody -- including the bad guys -- recognizes that the Korean Peninsula is a special case.

[D-fendr]

I disagree. I think Iran is noticing the N.K. precedent.

N.K., Iran, Syria, South America... all are part of the get nuke insurance group.