The Only Way To Resolve The North

If A Prosecutor In The Hague Decides That The U.s. Has Not Followed Through Effectively On An Investigation - Is Unwilling Or Unable To Carry It Through - Then That Person, That Prosecutor, In An Unreviewable Fashion Gets To Second-guess The United States? That Is Unacceptable. That Is An Assertion Of Authority Over And Above The U.s. Constitution.

In The United States, There Is A Broadly Shared View That The U.n. Is One Of Many Potential Instruments To Advance U.s. Issues, And We Have To Decide Whether A Particular Issue Is Best Done Through The U.n. Or Best Done Through Some Other Mechanism.

Just As That Little Opening In The Iron Curtain That Hungary Created Caused A Flood Of People Out, And Ultimately The Beginning Of The End Of Communism In Europe, If You Could Get Refugee Flows Coming Out Of North Korea, While There'd Be A Very Difficult Humanitarian Problem In The Short Run, Both For China And South Korea, In The Long Run It Would Lead To Reunification.

The Real Issue Of Dealing With Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Is: What Is Your Tolerance For Risk? And My Tolerance For Risk For Wmd Proliferation Is Pretty Close To Zero. Because Otherwise, We And Our Allies Are At The Mercy Of Regimes Like Ahmadinejad And The Mullahs In Tehran, Or Kim Jong Il And The Hitler-in-the-bunker Mentality In Pyongyang, Or Others Who Don't Share Our Calculus On The Value Of Human Life.

I'm Obviously Aware That People Are Quite Focused On The Economy Rather Than Foreign Policy Issues, But That Is Something That Should And Can Be Altered As People See The Nature Of The Threats Around The World That We Face.