Conditions make it hard to talk

Unrealistic demands of the US and its allied nations will further delay resumption of Six-Party Talks for Peninsula

Despite little substantive agreement, the talks between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in New York on July 28-29 were a rare act worth applauding.

The talks signaled that Washington has shifted its policy of "malign neglect" of Pyongyang since the sinking of the Cheonan on March 26, 2010, and turned to dialogue with the North. But there is no evidence that the Obama administration will engage with the DPRK and no evidence that bilateral talks between the two countries would spearhead a dialogue process similar to that of 2007.