South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has sought to re-engage North Korea with dialogue and aid since taking office in February, expressed exasperation Tuesday with what she called the "endless vicious cycle" of Seoul answering Pyongyang's hostile behavior with compromise, only to get more hostility.
But compromise will only come if Americans insist on intelligent, reasonable behavior on the part of our elected officials behavior that has been sadly missing largely because so much of the American public has given up on the time honored benefits of meeting in the middle.