GIVE PEACE A CHANCE: It was Oscar Wilde who called a second marriage “the triumph of hope over experience.” The same insight might be applied to the very guarded optimism that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could be convinced to give up his nukes in return for security guarantees.

North Korea negotiated a very beneficial deal with the U.S. in 1994, which included two light-water nuclear reactors for energy, shipments of fuel oil, an exchange of emissaries, and a roadmap for being welcomed back into the international community. But the Bush administration caught the North cheating on the deal by developing a secret uranium-based nuclear program, and scrapped the so-called “framework agreement” in 2002.