As Americans get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July by shooting off some fireworks, North Korea seems intent on firing off some rockets of its own around the same time. Yesterday they fired off some short-range missiles off its east coast, trying to perfect their technology and defying world opinion at the same time. At the same time, the British ambassador to North Korea reported that the communist regime refuses to engage in negotiations over its nuclear program, one of the biggest threats to our national security.

Ironic that while the president of the world’s most powerful nation begs dictators and terrorists around the world for direct talks without preconditions, the North Korean regime rejects such talks. Actually, it makes sense: the longer that the US wastes time in pushing for more talks, the more time they have to produce more nuclear weapons and fine-tune their missiles. The administration better start putting on their serious faces when dealing with the enemy, otherwise they will continue to threaten us and defy the will of the civilized world. I don’t understand how the administration came up with the idea that projecting weakness around the world would keep America safe.

-AG