No. We should remove Kim Jong Il from power and sub in a stooge who will go along with whatever we want. In addition to doing God's work on Earth (removing a tyrant with his own peoples' blood on his hands), it would cement the United States' current military advantage over China.

We should negotiate and deal with every country in the world!

of course we should negotiate with them, but we should also take swift action against any nation that assists them in obtaining nuclear weaponry.

This is what we have to do with the Koreas. First of all, we have to isolate North Korea. The single reason why we have been keeping US troops along the de-militarized zone for fifty years is because of the historic threat of China intervening for North Korea in the case of attack. The Korean War was a stalemate because the Chinese intervened and beat back our advance after General MacArthur crossed the North-South boundary. The threat of World War 3 erupting because of this was very evident in 1951 but today the chance of this happening is minimal. The Soviet Union allied with Communist China 50 years ago would have created a massive 2 front war that the US could not fight alone. Today the Soviet Union does not exist anymore and China would rather improve relations with the rest of Asia and the United States rather than to blow all goodwill on the whims of North Korean leader Little Kim. Indeed, China is rapidly becoming one of South Korea's principal trading partners. China isn't going to aid North Korea. What is good for US interests in the region as a whole is to continue improving relations with China, who has historically dominated the region and will probably become the regional superpower in no time flat. The North Koreans will now have no choice but to negotiate; they are isolated economically and politically. We really don't need to keep troops in the de-militarized zone in such high numbers; South Korea can begin handle their own defenses now. We can send our troops to other areas like Afghanistan that need our immediate attention. Maybe during the Cold War we were needed there to maintain the balance of power in the region, but now that balance has shifted and priorities need to be re-arranged as well. We along with our regional partners need to keep the heat on North Korea; isolate them even more when they don't cooperate, and when they do reward them. Containment can solve the problem; in other words, use the carrot-stick approach. They really are a weak state and they don't have much to work with. Little Kim can rant and rave all he wants; as long as he's surrounded by people who are hostile or indifferent to him, he won't be able to do nothing, including acquire nuclear weapons.

Negotiate? OK. Capitulate to their demands? No. Clinton capitulated to their demands in the 90s, and here they are again making the same exact threats. In a nutshell: give us money and we won't make nukes. Well, how about we DON'T give you ANYTHING and see how far you get with your nuke project? Problem solved. Besides, China won't allow NK to do anything to the US. The Chinese rely too much on Western dollars to allow an upstart historical enemy of theirs to do anything to jeopardize the flow of US dollars into China. North Korea is a bunch of blowhards with no power to speak of.

If we go bustin in there like we did with Iraq, I'm afriad that serious reprucussions might result. If not from Kim Il Jong, then from one of his buddies in some other rogue state. That said, how can we negotiate with someone who spends $300,000 a year on cognac while his people starve to death by the millions?

If North Korea is willing to negotiate then why not, of course this is actually a moot point considering that N. Korea has been very defiant about dismantling their Nukes program, not to mention that they are under the rule of a vainglorious despot.

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. Plain and simple.