By Andrew L. Jaffee

How reassuring: N. Korean dictator Kim Jong-il likes scotch, James Bond movies, Daffy Duck, fast cars, and apparently under-age girl sex-slaves, according to Fox News. He’s also sold weapons to Iran and Syria. What if he exports his newly-tested nukes? Hey, wake up world: we’re talking nuclear annihilation. Some people, mainly on the Left, are urging direct talks with N. Korea, but according to Colin Powell regarding the the “dialogue” between the Clinton administration and Kim:

Because the last time we had a bilateral negotiation with the North Koreans, it resulted in the Agreed Framework, which bottled Yongbyon so that no weapons came out of Yongbyon for another eight years, but it left the capacity to develop weapons in place at Yongbyon; and while they were doing that and we were watching that, before the ink was dry on the Agreed Framework, the North Koreans had started to move in another direction to develop the same kinds of nuclear weapons that we thought we had capped at Yongbyon. We’re not going to fall into that trap again.