North Korea and new questions of diplomacy. As some kind of Christmas present to itself, North Korea delivered 1,000 fuel rods to its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. On the last day of 2002, it expelled U.N. weapons inspectors.
The Bush administration can only guess what New Year's resolution Kim Jong Il has up his sleeve. Yesterday the president criticized Mr. Kim but made it clear that military operations in the Korean Peninsula are out of the question. At the same time he warned Saddam Hussein that his "day of reckoning" is coming.
While some say that treating the two ends of the axis or evil differently makes perfect sense, others argue that that there's a case to be made for consistency. Split screen diplomacy.
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James Lilly, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to China and South Korea under Reagan and Bush
Leon Fuerth, professor of International Affairs at George Washington University's Elliot School and former national security advisor to Vice President Al Gore.
James Lilly, we're not going to throttle the South Korean policy. listen
Leon Fuerth, we're trying to throttle what's left of their economy. listen
