CNN’s Mike Chinoy who wrote a book  that was discredited before it hit bookshelfs about the North Korean nuclear issue now has published his latest recommendation for how the Obama administration should deal with North Korea; drum roll please……  With More Negotiations!:

Despite its strong condemnation of the April 5 rocket launch and public support for action at the United Nations, the Obama administration appears to understand that sanctions alone are a dead end. In a revealing meeting with reporters the day before the test, the new U.S. envoy to North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, went out of his way to downplay talk of coercion. Instead, he repeatedly signaled a desire to resume negotiations with Pyongyang.

“We … believe strongly that everyone has a long-term interest. Regardless of this short-term problem, everyone has a long-term interest in getting back to the negotiations in the six-party process as expeditiously as possible,” he said. He added, “We will continue to have bilateral contacts with the North Koreans. And we are prepared to open that channel at any point.”

In the current heated climate — especially given the hardline positions toward the North adopted by key U.S. allies Japan and South Korea — it is likely to be weeks or months before those contacts resume, let alone offer the possibility of producing any meaningful progress. In the meantime, the challenge in what many commentators have described as Obama’s first major foreign policy test is not just to prove how tough he can be, but to show that he has the will and political skill to keep open the possibility of negotiating with North Korea in spite of Kim’s provocations.  [CNN]

Obama knows UN sanctions are a dead end because Russia and China already said they would veto any attempt at sanctions.  That leaves the door open for North Korea appeasement crowd like Bosworth and Chinoy to preach their negotiations kool-aid as the answer to the North Korea issue while ignoring better options.