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The best thing for the U.S. to do would be to stop worrying about the North.

There's no conventional threat to America. Even with missiles and nukes, the DPRK wouldn't dare attack the U.S. As for the possibility of proliferation, Washington should make clear that any inkling of sales to dangerous actors would ensure that the Dear Leader would be looking for virgins in the fires of hell, not in his palaces in Pyongyang.

At the same time, America needs to bring its forces home from South Korea. The ROK is well able to defend itself. Let it do so. We have nothing at stake that requires protecting allies who are more likely to blame us for defending them than North Korea for threatening them. And it is the presence of those troops that ensnares us in the madness otherwise known as North Korean foreign policy.

It was almost charming to see Seoul being taken in by the North the first couple of times. No longer. If the South Koreans want to continue playing the fool in Kim Jong-il's tiresome road show, let them. America has better things to do.

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Military, North Korea