The Marmot’s Hole

Your Rohism for the week:

The standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions pits the world’s most stubborn country, North Korea, against the country with the strongest voice in the world, the United States, and therefore a resolution is inherently complicated, Roh said.

“But neither side has the freedom to take the situation to a breakdown,” Roh told senior South Korean journalists at the presidential Blue House.

“Under no circumstances can the North choose nuclear weapons, and under no circumstances can the United States choose military means,” Roh said.

For that matter, he also said that neither side could “choose a situation South Korea does not want.”

Reminds me of something I read in a recent editorial (kindly sent by a reader) in the WSJ that I generally disliked but do credit for having one of the best lines about President Roh I’ve ever read. Speaking about Roh’s proposed “Northeast Asian balancer” role for Korea, Kim Han-cho wrote:

Exactly how someone can walk a tightrope with one foot in his mouth is a mystery.

Golden.

(Hat tip to Lost Nomad)