By I guess you can say great minds think alike 
because I have noticed the same thing which is the Obama administration’s lack of a North Korea policy:
Donald Kirk
Korea remains the forgotten war. Just ask United States President Barack Obama. “For us,” he declaimed at his inaugural, Americans “fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and Khe Sanh”.
Korea? The Chosun Reservoir, from which US Marines retreated in bloody defeat in “the coldest winter” of 1950-1951? The Pusan perimeter, which Americans defended against repeated North Korean assaults in the summer of 1950 before driving the invaders out of the south after the Inchon landing? Heartbreak Ridge and Pork Chop Hill – two of the hardest-fought battlegrounds of the Korean War? Forget it.
Clearly, Obama’s policy-making and speech-writing crew made a calculated decision. One can imagine the thoughts coursing through the collective brains of the incoming doyens of the White House and National Security Council and their aides and advisers from the think-tanks: [Donald Kirk - Asia Times]
Make sure to read the rest, but I agree with Donald Kirk that the Obama administration’s early signals are that they have no intention of making North Korea a priority issue anytime soon.
North Korea has been making many provactive statements lately to get the Obama administration’s attention, but clearly no one is paying much attention to their threats anymore. This means North Korea will have to up the ante if they want to get Obama’s attention.
What better way then a second nuclear test?
12:10 am on January 26th, 2009 1
Kim Jong-Il will get this administration's attention, one way or another; if all else fails, a second nuclear test seems logical.
2:44 am on January 26th, 2009 2
You have other more important things to worry about, like your collapsing banks and your crashing economy.
3:00 am on January 26th, 2009 3
"You have other more important things to worry about, like your collapsing banks and your crashing economy."
This a good point by "Tom". I'd only add that while North Korea is an important foreign policy issue, other issues such as shutting down Gitmo, finding a way to deal with the detainees, finding a sensible solution to the deepening quagmire of Afghanistan-Pakistan, and making sure Iraq doesn't descend (again) into bloody ethnic-civil strife during the US pull out are most pressing at this stage.
Whether it was entirely his fault or not, Dubya's tenure has left behind a host of problems. Obama and his people are going to just take them up one at a time.
3:04 am on January 26th, 2009 4
It was all campaign talk after all. They haven't even appointed anyone to deal with NK yet. Stasis we can believe in.
6:38 am on January 26th, 2009 5
You know that the guy's been president for less than a week, right? Anyway, President Obama's North Korean policy will likely entail slashing USFK's OMA funds and halting construction at Camp Humphreys to reevaluate its necessity. Have you seen the new Humphreys gym? Secretary Gates would be smart to blame all of the extravagance at Humphreys on Rumsfeld. Also, whichever Koreans had hopes for an FTA with America might as well write about it to Santa Claus.
9:07 am on January 26th, 2009 6
I have to agree with #2. Although us visitors of Korean weblogs may be fascinated with everything Korea, truth is at the end of the day Korera is just another small peninsula which happens to have a bizzare regime up in its north. FOr the first few months of his presidency most Americans could care less about his Korea policy. They just want him to deal with the plate he has been given.
9:25 am on January 26th, 2009 7
^ Just another small nation…..that has nukes.
11:39 am on January 26th, 2009 8
I for one would welcome a second nuclear test from North Korea, if they can do it. I don't believe the first test was succesful so why would a second. The world has come to believe " a possible nuclear test" of minimal power, possibly a failed test, with Russia finally stating they detected radiation, that now North Korea has nuclear weapons? Give me a break.
Statements such as "they have enough plutonium to make 6 nuclear bombs", does not make six nuclear bombs, if they can't make one.
It would be to North Koreas benifit not to have a second test, if the first one didn't work, but the world believes it anyway.
12:59 pm on January 26th, 2009 9
By the way, The Marine did NOT retreat, they attacked in another direction, also remember that they were surrounded, which made the problem simple.
Who made those quotes?
8:19 pm on January 26th, 2009 10
Attribution of the quotes at #8 would be to Marine General Oliver P. Smith on the first one, and to Marine Col Chesty Puller on the second one. "No retreat" is a euphemism for withdrawal. The Marines couldn't carry on the mission to get to the border with China to help reunify all of Korea, knew they had to fight their way out of the Chinese Communist trap (and did so very well), get back to the sea, and depart the area of operations by ship to South Korea as the Red Chinese tide rolled over all that cold winter…