Isn’t what is proposed exactly what we have been doing for the past 30 years with North Korea?

All that results are deals where we provide them something they want in return for the promise of future concessions, which never appear.

As was pointed out, we were talking to Iran from 2001 to 2008 with no appreciable change. I’m afraid that if the Obama administration started talking with Iran they would feel the need to offer something to them to get some meaningless promise.

The Iranians aren’t stupid and they can see how well that has worked for the North Koreans.