"Even a lightweight like Kerry must understand the futility, under these circumstances, of sending to North Korea 'a top-level negotiating team with a mandate to stop this test from going forward.' Mandates don't stop anything. A team with tens of millions in U.S. dollars plus a few prostitutes would be more like it, but even that would, at best, only postpone the inevitable."

-- "North Korea's Perennial Helpers": Paul Mirengoff, Power Line