North Korea: U.S. should explore offer of dialogue.

From: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | Date: September 23, 2002 | Copyright information

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Monday, Sept. 23:

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Having improved relations with South Korea, Russia and Japan, poor, desperate and heavily armed North Korea goes one better and reaches out to Washington. The Bush administration should reach back _ but with a Latex glove on its shaking hand, its other hand on its wallet and a derringer in its boot.

The communist satrapy's motives are not difficult to discern. It needs money. That doesn't make it any less dangerous or unpredictable. It has reached out before, only to renege on its ...

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