White House Sticks to Decision to Avoid Talks With North Korea

With a rogue nuclear weapons program drawing world attention, North Korea has sent messages in every way it knows how that it wants direct talks with Washington — using shrill propaganda diatribes, silky diplomatic feelers, and this week, by stiff-arming a South Korean presidential envoy.

But Bush administration officials are flatly refusing, holding fast to the view that North Korea should be dealt with multilaterally, either by a group of its neighbors or by the United Nations Security Council.
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I don't think ignoring North Korea is such a good idea. North Korea is moving ahead with whatever it is they are doing. They aren't going to wait for Iraq to be finished.