That Evil Empire

It's been four months now since the evil N. Korea was committed to give the occupied White House a description of its nuclear facilities and projects. Bet I don't need to tell you it hasn't happened. That we are going back to the table with the country that has not lain down and said "Uncle" to this bunch of diplomatic failures should be treated as it is, with skepticism, even by the war criminals themselves.

The ongoing ineffectual effort of this cabal to bring N. Korea to heel has been rather symptomatic of how it has tried to deal in cowboy fashion with the evil empire rogue state, and been out-cowboyed, before.

Senior U.S. and North Korean negotiators will meet in Singapore on Tuesday to discuss the stalled effort to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

The State Department played down expectations for the talks between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill and North Korea's Kim Kye-gwan, saying they were not expected to produce North Korea's overdue declaration of its nuclear programs.

"Everybody take a deep breath. Chris will not be coming home with a declaration in his briefcase or his suitcase. This is part of a continuing process," State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters.

"Certainly we hope to make continued progress on it but I am not led to believe that there is any reason to suspect that this is a decisive point in those discussions," Casey added.

Earlier Casey and other U.S. officials had said they expected the meeting to take place on Monday.

"My expectations for this meeting ... are that they will go to Singapore, they will meet, they will discuss the declaration and then they will leave," Casey said. "We do not anticipate that there will be any final resolution of the issues related to the declaration at this meeting.

A 2005 accord under which North Korea agreed to abandon all its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and diplomatic benefits has been bogged down by Pyongyang's failure to produce a declaration of its nuclear programs by the end of last year. (Emphasis added.)

Somehow I suspect that at least one textbook in how not to deal with unfriendly nations has already been begun.

By starting out truculent, the cretin in chief set the tone for what he cannot now achieve, a peace that means a great deal to this country. His oath to protect this country has been broken in this way, among so many ways.