I know the US is smarting from the Sony hack, but this blog has grave doubts about the value and effect of sanctions. There are several signs that the new regime emerging in this isolated and shunned country is keen on some form of engagement with the world outside its own stylised creation and this is surely to be encouraged.
All those years of Cuban isolation achieved nothing useful and are now ending at last. Iran and the US were estranged for over thirty years and there is no evidence whatever that good came to either side because of it. It is surely time to give the hermit kingdom a break and see where it leads. It could be to a better place for everyone, including the US. It would certainly be better for the North Korean people.