That was President Obama talking tougher on North Korea over the weekend, firming up his stance against the totalitarian regime’s own provocative actions over the past two weeks. 

At the NY Times, David E. Sanger writes:

[While Mr. Obama is willing to reopen the six-party talks that Mr. Bush began — the other participants are Japan, South Korea, Russia and China — he has no intention, aides say, of offering new incentives to get the North to fulfill agreements from 1994, 2005 and 2008; all were recently renounced.

"Clinton bought it once, Bush bought it again, and we’re not going to buy it a third time," one of Mr. Obama’s chief strategists said last week, referring to the Yongbyon plant, where the North reprocesses spent nuclear fuel into bomb-grade plutonium.] 

The U.S. is considering interdicting North Korean ships in search of illegal arms or weapons of mass destruction, leading to the possibility that heightened tensions could flare up into open conflict beginning on the high seas. 

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