Originally Posted by
etudiant
Well, diplomacy does have its uses.
For instance, the US could mention to China and Russia that it is prepared to discuss the sale of nuclear weapons to South Korea and Taiwan unless North Korea is also denuclearized.
My guess is that this might attract more productive discussions than the expensive bluster has to date.
Really? That could only be done if the US were to unilaterally abrogate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an extremely unlikely event. So China and Russia would almost certainly call that bluff.