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Think Locally.(A)(EDITORIALS)
Korea: Tensions on the peninsula continue to escalate. Of the several options open to the U.S., the best, for now, is continued, and intense, diplomacy.
The worst options are appeasement and bribery. Appeasing hostile and aggressive regimes only emboldens them, which is always counterproductive.
Bribery, tried with North Korea in 1994 when the Clinton administration assisted the regime's nuclear power program and promised free oil in exchange for Pyongyang's pledge that it would halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons, simply doesn't work.
The U.S. could also impose new economic sanctions to isolate North Korea even more than it is now.
But saying that it doesn't want to use food as a political weapon, the White House has agreed to continue humanitarian food aid to the impoverished (and malnourished) North Koreans.
That's likely to make sanctions ineffective. North Koreans, who are used to their isolation, will be too content with simply avoiding starvation to generate the level of internal strife needed to topple the regime from within.
Another possibility is to bomb North Korea's nuclear capability into rubble. But North Korea is likely to respond by attacking a U.S. ally, possibly with a nuclear weapon, in the region. That could set off a war ...
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