Learning our Lessons From North Korea for Iran

Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress | July 9, 2008

"If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." ++ The US must heed the lessons learned from North Korea in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. ++ Had Bush agreed to a dialogue years before Pyongyang’s test explosion in 2006, the US would be negotiating in a position of strength, not weakness. ++ Nations concerned with global security cannot afford to be distracted and relieve pressure on defiant governments intent on gaining nuclear capabilities, or else these countries will succeed.