Other analysts say North Korea has set aside diplomacy for now, and is sprinting toward full-fledged international recognition as a nuclear power, like India and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

(No Transcripts here) and it also happened through the power of international broadcasting and public diplomacy from the United States that carried on the ideological fight behind the Iron Curtain,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"What we need is a multi-pronged, explicit strategy that employs all of the elements of our national power and our allies, and that ties together multiple lines of operation, including direct diplomacy with the Iranians, into a coherent plan of action for the months ahead that has goals and schedules and teeth,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In fact, this is again U.S. government, big-power diplomacy on behalf of the corporate elites.

NPR: Role of U.S. Changing in New World Order

The greatest challenge for big-power diplomacy today is non-proliferation, keeping shut the door to the nuclear club.

NPR: U.S. Loses Its Edge in Nuclear Talks

Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy.

CNN: Giving Peace a Chance