[TigerLikesRooster]

Now people can see that the emperor has no clothes on.

[The Electrician]

President Kim's crowning achievement—his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize—may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy.

So much of the Nobel committee's "glorious work" has been tainted... Arafat... Carter... Kim... where does it end and when will they get a clue?

[ABrit]

Ever hear of the "Danegeld"?

It was the money paid to the Vikings by the Andlo Saxons to secure peace. The Danes kept asking for more, and in the end, they still conquered the Anglo Saxons anyway.

What is the saying about history repeating itself as tragedy, and then farce?

[Voronin]

Sounds like Realpolitik to me. As for Nobel Prizes and the such, Mr. Nobels' invention of modern explosives has lead to more loss of lives this century than anything else. Yaddayaddayadda.

VRN

[Friedrich Hayek]

How different, really, are these secret payoffs given to the North by Kim from the very public $5 billion in aid that Clinton and Carter gave the Communists?

There's no difference as far as I can tell.