Krauthammer on N. Korea: ‘Freeze the Program and Get the Chinese to Back You’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "The question that you were asking is, 'Are you willing to have that as enough?' Is that enough that you don’t get anymore missile tests and nuke tests? I think 'probably' is all that we are going to get short of war, and I think it is an important objective because it means if they can’t test the missiles and they can’t test the nukes, it is not operational. It is a way to kick the can, but it does actually stop the program. To get it abolished, which is what he talked about, 'Abolish the program, we'll bring you into the community of nations, we'll make you economically strong.' That is not going to work. North Koreans are not interested in that. The regime likes their system. They’re not going to become Western. I think that seems to be their policy for now. You freeze the program and you get the Chinese to back you.”