....maybe the conversation has dried-up with North Korea?! It's either recognize them as a feisty little world power, like Estonia , except with nukes , and allow the country to emerge as a unique personality on the world scene. However, these are very bizarre political times in the USA, where the Republicans are going the way of the buffalo. Truly , a new dawn has emerged with the election of Pres. Obama, whose own mother was a Russian major in college. The essence of North Korea is ,maybe , they are being too conservative?! They need to liberalize ......the world is finally breaking free, from the past's vulgar chains, to emerge into a new world society, where a bridge between opposites is forming--the Korea's , North and South, must learn to become one, as light learns to embrace its shadow, finding the lost gems in the dark fields , that now their powerful light reveals.....