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.

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

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

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

To restart the six party talks on North Korea's nuclear-weapons program would be a mistake for the Obama administration.

North Korea's newly revealed nuclear facility should surprise no one, and Washington must no longer be played for a fool. The U.S. should work with China on reunifying the Korean peninsula.

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