Righteous Stand

By now, it should be clear that the conventional diplomatic and military options aren’t going to solve the North Korean problem. Kim Jong Il isn’t interested in making a deal; he’s even less interested in complying with one. The only feasible military option, a blockade, won’t separate Kim Jong Il from his throne. In our blog’s manifesto, Richardson, James, and I promote a strategy of isolating the regime while engaging and empowering the North Korean people.
That strategy offers to empower the North Korean people, but relies on them to execute the truly arduous parts of the strategy. We don’t deny the obvious difficulty of penetrating the world’s most closed society, although those barriers are clearly decaying. As things stand today, there is only so much the United States could hope to do to influence events inside the North. It could do much more if it were able to help a national resistance movement coalesce, and to get food, information, and weapons into its hands.

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