In 1994, former President Jimmy Carter traveled to North Korea, during Bill Clinton's own administration, to negotiate an end to the first NorthKoreannuclearcrisis.
In short, as with the NorthKoreannuclearcrisis, each day that is allowed to pass without taking effective action against Serbia brings with it new disincentives to doing so.
But its actual behaviour is much the same as it was during the NorthKoreannuclearcrisis of 1993-94 and in the aftermath of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
At a luncheon at the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Kay strongly counseled against: trading away U.S. security commitments to South Korea, paying a price to China for any help Beijing might give in defusing this crisis, or believing that a few nuclear weapons in NorthKorean hands will not be of much consequence.
North Korea and the United States were on opposite sides in the 1950-1953 Korean War and had no regular contacts before a 1994 crisis over North Korea's nuclear program.