"Nothing would be expected from the U.S., which remains unchanged in its hostility toward its dialogue partner," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried Friday by state media. The North "will bolster its nuclear deterrent as it has already clarified."
North Korea actually behaves as if the concepts of hope and change are meaningless to them!
I think I may end this line of posts. I think I've made my point that the problems we have in certain sectors of the world--whether enemies or uncooperative friends--were not the fault of George W. Bush. He was merely a convenient scapegoat for our problems.
And another reason this type of hope and change post has appealed to me is that it addresses a long-standing mistake of people to assume all foreign actors are mere passive subjects who react to what we do or don't do. How many times have you heard somebody blame America for some other country's actions, as if they sit around intently watching what we do (or don't do) before deciding on a course of action?
Countries act on their own, for the most part, without regard to what we do. And the continuity of actions by other nations when shifting from dealing with the "cowboy unilateral" Bush to President Obama--the man who just about wrote the "global test"--should make that clear.
Don't make me use sarcasm again.
