Similar to Obama's refusal to reassess his failed policy regarding North Korea, his nonreaction to the fraudulent Iranian election shows that he will not allow facts to interfere with his slavish devotion to his ideological canon that claims that no enemy is unappeasable and no ally deserves automatic support.
As far as they are concerned, the US has no option other than to continue the failed appeasement policy that has enabled North Korea to develop and proliferate nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
"Pyongyang is intentionally creating tensions before the incoming South Korean President Park Geun-hye has a chance to engage with the North or US President Barack Obama has a chance to shape his North Korea policy for his second tenure, " Cui Zhiying at Tongji University adds in Global Times.
Hong Won Tak, senior secretary for national security affairs, maintained the incident would not change the country's "sunshine" policy of seeking to engage North Korea or to cultivate business relations with it.
Though the two men make nice in public, they have fought over almost every aspect of U.S. foreign policy--from China to North Korea to Russia to, of course, Iraq.
To answer your question about North Korea, first of all, President Obama and I, for the last three years, we have maintained very close cooperation and coordination when it comes to North Korea policy.
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Leftist critics of President Bush's "aggressive" policy towards North Korea blanched when he had the temerity to declare that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il operated concentration camps.
And on a separate foreign policy issue, the President referred to North Korea in his interview this weekend.
In an effort to break this vicious circle, President Clinton, at Congress's insistence, appointed William Perry, a former defence secretary, to review North Korea policy.
Return to a policy of containment of North Korea, for the time being, discouraging Japan and South Korea from undermining that policy with their own ill-advised overtures.
North-South relations during Mr. Lee's term hit rock bottom after he ended a few-questions-asked aid policy and called on North Korea to show it was willing to change its confrontational behavior before dialogue could begin.
Of course it is not simply the administration's policy toward North Korea that is signaling to Iran that it has no reason to be concerned that the US will challenge its nuclear aspirations.
To understand how North Korea policy has become a diplomatic no-man's land empty, hopeless and likely to stay that way, if recent pronouncements by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are any indication it helps to visit the physical no-man's land of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Perhaps, the unusually violent nature of shelling is indeed related to North Korea's domestic policy.
Many people are worried by Mr Kim's policy of trying to engage the communist regime in North Korea in some sort of dialogue.
If anyone thinks Mr Bush is not responsible for foreign policy, whether the general approach to China or North Korea, the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq or the new American attitude toward Europe, they are wrong, argue Messrs Daalder and Lindsay.
Ah before I, ah, was sworn in, the policy of this government was to have bilateral negotiations with North Korea.
The Koryolink network, which was built in cooperation with Egypt's Orascom Telecom, marks a radical shift in policy for North Korea, which also recently began to allow tourists to enter the country with their own cellphones -- previously, visitors were required to hand over the devices upon landing in Pyongyang.
There will be many opportunities to explore this and other diplomatic options in policy towards North Korea.
And there are a lot of foreign policy issues all around the world from Syria to Iran, North Korea, et cetera.
That creates a particularly appeasement-prone environment, as no newly elected leader wishes to spend political capital on a foreign policy crisis created by North Korea when many other pressing domestic issues beckon.
"Incredibly, some inside the Bush administration and many outside it are acting as though this confirmation of bad faith offers a basis for further negotiations with and concessions to North Korea, " Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney writes in National Review Online.
Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail.
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And we talked about the security situation in the region and the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and agreed to continue working closely together in implementing our North Korea policy.
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Or perhaps the incursion represents a desire by some hardline elements in North Korea to sabotage the South's sunshine policy because of their fear that over time the North will be seduced into surrendering its sovereignty or altering its political system.
So, along with a booming business in the nitty-gritty of missile and nuclear proliferation, what might Iran in all its intimacy with North Korea be learning from the Pyongyang policy playbook, to which Khamenei over a span of more than two decades has been devoting praise?
Chung talked to FORBES GLOBAL about his economic policy and how he would handle relations with North Korea if he were elected.
It continues to push a policy predicated on its unfounded faith that China is interested in restraining North Korea.
Mr Schmidt visited North Korea in early January, though after the new policy is reported to have come into effect.
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