There has been speculation that back door talks were ongoing with North Korea from the Obama administration and I hope it doesn’t mean conditions are being set for yet another appeasement of North Korea:

The U.S. and South Korea are hatching a “comprehensive” strategy to persuade North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, breaking from the step-by-step process that has seen Pyongyang backtrack on pledges.

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Kurt Campbell discussed the strategy Monday with chief South Korean nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac, Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young said.

The possibility of a new approach came as Pyongyang’s isolated communist regime hardened its boycott of international talks after carrying out its second atomic-weapons test and test-firing a barrage of banned missiles in defiance of U.N. sanctions.

Campbell first spoke of the idea Saturday, saying the U.S. and its partners would be prepared to offer a “comprehensive package that would be attractive” to North Korea if it returned to multinational talks aimed at ending its nuclear programs and took irreversible steps to disarm.  [Denver Post]

Overall the Obama administration’s early policies on North Korea haven’t been too bad despite the fact they have completely ignored the North Korean human rights issue.  However, there are a number of Democrats that would love nothing more than to appease Kim Jong-il and this article makes me wonder if the appeasers are starting to win out?