SOUTH KOREAN COLLABORATION

While many in the US fault the Bush administration for the dire situation in Korea, it seems local history may suggest the true nature of the peninsula's problems. The ROK's former president Kim may have "bought" a summit with North Korea. This is, if I'm not mistaken, the same former president who authored the "sunshine policy" that effectively triangulated relations between the ROK, US and NK, placing the US and NK as combatants between which the ROK negotiated.

How might the US be able to fix such a situation on its own? Futher payoffs to the North? When the South's leadership was likely collaborating with Pyongyang?

Korea's problems are much deeper than the Agreed Framework could have hoped to repair, and are more the result of local forces than the result of any American policy.