No Summit This Year

Even Roh Moo-Hyun doesn’t see much point in having a summit with Kim Jong-Il. He probably reads this blog. Sunshine is fading into oblivion along with the failure of the North Korean state.

By any measure of Machiavellian diplomacy, they should have sent Kim Jong Il to Seoul to whip up more “unification fever” by now. Their failure to exploit even those who would willingly support them speaks volumes about their current paralysis.

Meanwhile, on the six-party front, even Richard Armitage says that North Korea doesn’t “deserve” any concessions, which is certainly an understatement, albeit somewhat irrelevant to defining and accomplishing our goals in the region.