Northern Limits

This is the sort of thing that puts me in the uncomfortable situation of agreeing with the majority of the blogs which focus on the Koreas. (The question of why so many of them have a conservative viewpoint is one I'd like to address someday.) I'm actually enthusiastically in favor of negotiation but backing down to NK is no way to achieve peace. The NLL was instituted arbitrarily and may need to be redrawn, but only in the context of a broader agreement on naval issues. To open the NLL for discussion when the North has been unwilling to negotiate on any of the other matters under discussion is to give up an important bargaining tool.