| The Perilous Case of Kim Jong II
Green, Michael J.
National Interest, September/October 2009, #103, pp36-42
"These days when North Korea conducts a nuclear or missile test, the preferred
metaphor in Washington is to compare Kim Jong Il to a spoiled child. President
George W. Bush used to say the North's "Dear Leader" was like a baby throwing food on the floor in the hope that the adults would pick it up. When asked about North Korea during a recent trip to the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that as a mother she was already familiar with small children acting out to gain attention. Meanwhile, foreign-policy experts have fought over diplomatic tactics for a decade: Should we engage Pyongyang bilaterally? Multilaterally? Not at all? Journalism's contribution has been a series of depressingly accurate but not terribly prescriptive accounts of how often the U.S. and Asian governments have been reduced to internal squabbling over North Korea policy."
Michael G. Green is a Senior Advisor and holds the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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