by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 7, 2003

“The United States of America,” President Bush thundered to a wildly cheering Congress, “will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”

The challenge Bush threw down a year ago has now been taken up. The Stalinist regime of North Korea, arguably the “world’s most dangerous,” has just admitted it is building the world’s most destructive weapons. And Bush’s response? “Let’s talk.”