North Korea demanded that the United States apologize for calling it part of an "axis of evil" and an "outpost of tyranny," urging Washington to provide the right conditions for a return to six-party talks on its nuclear drive.
They give me a headache.
Couldn't we just send a diplomat to tell the North Koreans the bald truth:
Look, you guys are evil and tyrannical. We'd just as soon nuke your sorry asses across the international dateline rather than endure another round of 6-power talks with the likes of your shrunken, famine-addled negotiators.
We've reinforced our air power within range of your country, updated all our GPS coordinates for every structure in your pathetic house-of-terror-with-a-UN-seat, deployed anti-missile units around your launch points, and we are declaring a blockade of your thugocracy. If you screw with us, we're just going to destroy you. We're tired of your insulting attempts to blackmail us into paying for your joy brigades and Belgian chocolates.
So, screw all of you. Good day.
I'd pay good money to be at that press conference. That's what I call setting the stage for renewed negotiations.
