Its time to revisit the question of how we deal with North Korea. I'll say it: North Korea is now a nuclear nation. I don't like it but, hell, I don't like it that Israel, Pakistan, India and Russia are either. With Donald Trump as our President I'm not sure that there is a single nation in the nuclear club that isn't led by someone whose stability is up for question.
North Korea may be led by a nutcase but he is not wrong when he observes that many of the countries that have been convinced to give up their weapons of mass destruction have then found themselves in the sights of American military aggression.
It's time that we worked with China to implement the most aggressive sanctions we can while holding out the carrot of a thaw based on a nuclear non-aggression pact. We should never trust them as long as they remain under the leadership of a tyrant but trusting an adversary has never been a requirement of such a pact. In fact, we don't need pacts with those we trust, we need them with those we don't.
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