Ah, the power of engagement. New North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun has reportedly agreed to a wide-ranging deal with the Obama administration.

In the transition from an old dictator to a new one, some observers were losing faith in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, believing it had lost its magic touch in the arts of dissembling. Others had deeper faith, though, and they were rewarded last week when the State Department proudly announced the umpteenth breakthrough toward the goal of denuclearizing North Korea.

Washington is already in mini-crisis mode over North Korea’s planned launch of a “satellite” (actually, an intercontinental ballistic missile)...Now comes word from South Korea that Pyongyang may also be planning another nuclear test.

After the Bush administration,thereality of Iranian, North Korean, and other nuclear weapons programs will continue.

The failure to stop proliferation in North Korea sends the wrong message to other countries involved in nuclear activity.

The Bush administration'smeltdown is a sad thing to see.

The Bush administration's concessions to North Korea will encourage nuclear proliferation to other rogue states seeking the bomb.

The Bush administration's "realist" stance toward North Korea only makes Kim Jong-Il's regime more dangerous.