During his recent trip to Asia, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as good as admitted that the Obama administration's policy of strategic patience on North Korea has failed. Despite Washington's efforts to convince Pyongyang to alter its bad behavior through measures like sanctions, the danger has only grown. And now, just over the horizon -- in addition to the potential threat of nuclear technology exports -- Gates believes, we may be facing a North Korea able to fire nuclear-armed missiles at the United States. All of this, according to the secretary, means that, "There is some urgency to proceeding down the track of negotiations and engagement."
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