bush refuses diplomacy yet again

From the Las Vegas Sun :

U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks

The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors.
"It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."
North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said.
In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States.
"We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday. "If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."
U.S. officials believe North Korea, which is seeking bilateral talks with the United States, may have from four to two dozen nuclear devices, depending on the assumptions used about the bombs' designs.

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So, N. Korea is "seeking bilateral talks with the United States", but we're insisting on multi-lateral. Will bush simply do whatever it takes to make matters worse? The list of mistakes over Iraq are innumerable, but its funny that it was ok to go it alone there, but he is insisting on bringing in other countries to talk with NK. Now, let's see, who thought that bilateral talks with NK was a good idea? Hmmm...oh, that's right, Kerry did! Because it might accomplish something! So, because it might achieve results, bush has to believe that it is a bad idea! Life gets more ridiculous by the day! Let's hope that his stubbornness does not cause a nuclear war!