The problem with North Korea is the fact that the United States has put off any meaningful talks with them for the past 60 years now. After the Korean War came to a stale mate and no armistice was signed that should have been the first thing on the plate of any administration. The cold war rhetoric played out made this impossible. Now with a Communist North Korea that has proven that they can manufacture nuclear weapons it will be next to impossible to negotiate any reasonable settlement. I do not agree with Sanctions because 1.) How can you place sanctions against a nation for producing the same weapons that most major super powers have? 2.) North Korea already has WMD’s in the form of chemical and biological weapons. These weapons by themselves are much more of a threat than nuclear weapons in that they can be deployed easier, they can be placed not only on ballistic missiles but can be loaded on any aircraft with a good dispersal system, and they are harder to detect than simply waiting for a mushroom cloud to appear. 3) It is known from our experience after sept 11th that any scientist worth his weight can produce anthrax or any other bio weapon and deliver it simply using the postal service of any nation. North Korea has been emboldened by the fact that not even the United States wants to fight a conflict against North Korea that would pull a lot more troops into it more so than Iraq or Iran would. In the end the only way to convince North Korea of disbanding its weapons program would be to bring to an end the Korean War, and unify both North and South Korea in a way that would bring peace to the region. Religion has nothing to do with aspirations that North Korea has, nor does the current occupant of the white house have anything to do with what North Korea wants. Simply put North Korea will operate under the same assumption it has for decades and that is that most nations including the US does not and will not stomach a full scale conflict like the one in the 1950′s