Seriously... that "extended and open hand" offer... it is making the entire world a less safe place to live for... billions of humans.

Reuters news report

North Korean envoy warns war could erupt soon

GENEVA (Reuters) – A North Korean envoy said on Thursday that war could erupt at any time on the divided Korean peninsula because of tension with Seoul over the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

"The present situation of the Korean peninsula is so grave that a war may break out any moment," Ri Jang Gon, North Korea's deputy ambassador in Geneva, told the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.

North Korea's troops were on "full alert and readiness to promptly react to any retaliation," including the scenario of all-out war, he told the forum....

I could sort of understand someone with no experience outside of trying to organize a depressed community into lobbying for more government money... thinking that somehow they could talk some sense into communist/socialist/dictatorial regimes... but you know... after getting jack slapped over and over and over again... and made to look... naive... and inept... you would think that someone would wake up and say to themselves... "Hey Dude, I'm going to get a lot of people killed with this embracing approach thing!"

Maybe we ought to go back to the arrogant world leader thing?

xtnyoda, shalomed