The no meeting in Pyongyang. Herr Bush's policy towards North Korea is a dead duck!

Much has been made of the US chief negotiator Chris Hill's panicked flight to Pyongyang to try to salvage a dead deal on North Korea's nuclear programme, in the light of Kim Jong il's regime's restarting it again, and reneging on Herr Bush's promises to delist North Korea from its 'terrorist states anathema'. Even though Hill prolonged his 2 day stay to a third, his trip was much ado about nothing, and had the suspect odour of a publicity stunt to blame Pyongyang for Washington's sins. Herr Bush tried to flim flam North Korea by calling a meeting whose avowed purpose is doing no business at all. US secretary of state, the incompetent Condoleeza Rice gave the whole show away by announcing that the US had nothing to offer North Korea in order to dissuade it from shutting down Yongbyon once more. Furthermore the sleight of hand was to hide from view the complete and total failure of Herr Bush's foreign policy, by creating the impression that the US was ready to talk business, but whose avowed purpose is to do no business at all, at all. And so it was. A visibly exhausted Hill showed up in Seoul to say nothing had been accomplished in his quick flight to Pyongyang. The result: Pyongyang will continue its nuclear programme. Hill's last minute visit may have had another purpose...he had to pluck his false rabbit out of his diplomatic pouch, for at the same time he was there military talks between North and South Korea were underway, and there too we find another 'no meeting'. The fault lies squarely with the hardline, dogmatic Lee Myong bak, South Korea's new president. He has succeeded in killing the goose that laid the golden eggs of Kim Dae Jung's sunshine policy, and bringing back to the divide Korean peninsula, a renewed state of tensions. So much for the high and the mighty who take lamp lights for chamber points! If anyone has shot himself in the foot, it's Herr Bush and his fellow blockhead in Seoul Shogun Lee.