“A top State Department expert on North Korea who advocated a policy of incentives as well as penalties to persuade the nation to abandon its quest for nuclear weapons has resigned, officials said today.” Wouldn’t you know it, the resignation points to a division within the US dysadministration over what approach to take to North Korea, and the conciliatory are being beaten back by the confrontational. The FmH reader who pointed me to the article commented, ‘Joe McCarthy cried “Who lost China?”, and successfully purged the government of anyone who knew anything about China; thus vastly increasing the chance of a nuclear confrontation. History now repeats itself in North Korea…’ NY Times [thanks,Adam]