stopping North Korea

Only US can do so-if only it really wants to

The number on concern among regional experts these days if whether or when Pyongyang will conduct its third neclear test. We don't pretend to know bette than others,but like any other longtime watcher of North korea, can bet the reclsive regime will do so someday soon if not tomorrow.

the allies' increasingly frequent hints at the impending test of a nuclear bomb and its detonating devices by the North is actually indirect pressure on China to step up its efforts to dissuade its Stalinist ally from further provcation.

may be able to put if off for some time-several months at the most-not stop its troublesome protege for good. it cannot give Pyongyang what it ultimately wants-a normalized relationship with America.

a widespread consensus in Washignton is no one can, or should, expect the rougue regime on the northern half of the Koean peninsula to stop its nucleasr development programs and missile launches.Yet such defeatism and easy resignation ahve helped to expand the North's nuclear arsenal, whcih experts estimate to ahve moe than a dozen nuclear weapons or weapons-grade material for such

The North Korean regime can have no excuses for being bent on a nuclear buildup while letting its millios of citizens starve to death.
not once but twice
in working out closely-woven agreements that does not allow loopholes for North Koreans to slip through or just remained complacent with the political accomplishment..
nutritional aid
on the don't-do lists
such scrupulosity ight have been possbile if

this is never to say which side is right or more right.THe North Korean leadership is inexcusable and unforgivable if for no other reason than ignoring its people's plight for the system's- or regime's-continuity.

The U.S could conduct a surgical strike as an eventual solutio, as it planned to do in 1994. If Washington instead takes up a solution through dialogue , it should do so far more efficiently-an earnestly.