Appeasing North Korea

North Korea believes it is an appropriate demarche to make demands of the United States in "secret talks" according to an article by Josh Rogin appearing in Foreign Policy at http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/15/north_korea_rebuffs_us_at_secret_meeting_in_china. It is amazing that a nation that can not even feed its own people has been allowed to engage in nuclear blackmail by the Obama administration and treated as an equal by unctuous American negotiators. North Korea remains a starving basket case Stalinist police state that should not be coddled but dictated to by the civilized nations of the world.