Appeasement, Please
The case for paying North Korea's nuclear blackmail.
The more you think about it, the more unsetteling North Korea becomes. These doesn't seem to be a good solution to this problem. We can't "pre-empt" (like we maybe about to do with Iraq) the threat of a North Korea with nuclear arms, because they may have a few atom bombs already and thousands of artillery pieces on the border, which would be able to kill thousands of South Koreans and Americans. In light of this, the case for appeasement is particulary strong. However, I think that appeasement in the short term ought to be coupled with a long term strategy aimed at weakening the North, through I'm not sure how we could go about that. The New Republic suggests giving North Korean defectors refugee status maybe the help tame Pyongyang, which I suppose is better than ding nothing.