Editor,
This week the U.S. announced a "diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea." The U.S. will provide nutrition assistance to communist Korea in turn for that nation's stopping nuclear and missile testing.
What this really does is prop up a frail new dictator at the very moment he is most vulnerable. Our deal allows Kim Jong Un to pacify his people with food and keep himself and his party in power.
The deal also helps the Democratic Party of the negotiators to appear to make the American homeland safer and more secure just months ahead of the presidential elections.
A better course would be to let North Korea "break up" like the Soviet Union and East Europe did in the early 1990s. Then the Koreans could save themselves from starvation by developing a more free market system, including private ownership of farms and homes.
Obama's "breakthrough" preserves old school Asian communism for another generation. This is hardly a warm and fuzzy news story, and certainly not something for the electorate to stand up and cheer about.
Kim Shinkoskey
Woods Cross
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