CNN's State Department Producer Elise Labott has an article on CNN's website today, Analysis: Has North Korea reached a 'tipping point'?

She has covered four secretaries of state and reported from more than 50 countries. Before joining CNN, she covered the United Nations.

Fifteen years after the Clinton administration signed the Agreed Framework, essentially bribing North Korea to give up its weapons program with a nuclear power plant, the U.S. has been riding a merry-go-round of deal-making, provocation and punishment with the North.

The Bush administration also tried unsuccessfully to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions -- first by trying to squeeze the regime and then by reaching a deal with Pyongyang to dismantle its main nuclear reactor...

Economic sanctions, U.N. Security Council resolutions and even the Obama administration's policy of engagement with rogue states all have failed so far...

So, President Bill Clinton 'bribed' North Korea to give up its weapons; but President George W. Bush 'reached a deal' with Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear reactor.

Did you know that in just a little over 100 days President Obama's foreign policy with respects to North Korea has failed?  President Bush had 8 years and he still failed; but you see no mention of that fact in that statement about sactions and resolutions not working.

The role of China and Russia, typically reluctant to impose sanctions against North Korea, will be crucial. Last month the U.S. could barely get Beijing and Moscow to sign onto to a watered-down statement criticizing North Korea. But administration officials involved in North Korea policy say the one silver lining in the latest antics is that they were so outrageous they crossed a line, which could galvanize Russia and China to act.

Don't you just love knowing the political views of so called experts that are writing their opinions about a political situation?

With decades of diplomacy unable to produce a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, it begs the question of whether it is time for a fundamental overhaul of U.S. policy toward North Korea. There are serious conversations in Washington and among capitals about whether North Korea has reached a "tipping point," offering the world final proof it is intent on developing what it calls a "nuclear deterrent."

This is one statement I agree with.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, perhaps it's time to use reverse psychology -- show them a little mutual respect (because they too had weapons), just as we did China and the Soviet Union many decades ago.  It may be our only chance to stop them from passing along their capabilities to other nations like Iran.