Despite having little demonstrable interest in giving up its nuclear weapons, North Korea is once again headed for a negotiating table to do just that. That the North Koreans have been invited at all is a testament to the strange desperation of both the Obama administration and the South Korean Lee Myung-bak administration to return to the Six Party Talks.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.

At this event, panelists will discuss the implications of a North Korean missile launch, including how the launch will affect U.S. relations with other countries in the region, and the future of the six-party talks.

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

It’s folly to expect Beijing to seriously help in curbing Pyongyang.

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

Negotiations like the six-party talks are a charade and reflect a continuing collapse of American resolve.

With China's backing, North Korea is vigorously campaigning to draw the United States into another round of "six-party talks," the multilateral deliberations on North Korean "denuclearization" first convened in 2003.