As the world's strongest nuclear and conventional power, America should want to freeze weapons development and halt nuclear proliferation.
On Tuesday, Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote, "What's needed is a serious diplomatic effort to freeze weapons testing," with a willingness by the Trump Administration to offer "sanctions relief, a formal end to the state of war or an adjustment to U.S.-South Korean military exercises".
Under that policy, Bill Clinton gave North Korea two nuclear power plants in exchange for the country freezing their weapons program, and it took the US eight years to find out Kim Jong-ignoredred his end of the bargain.
North Korea put forward a plan to freeze its weapons program in return for economic benefits.
China and Russia offered to join South Korea in providing energy aid if North Korea froze its weapons program, though the United States and Japan said they would not offer aid at that stage.
SIX weeks ago, North Korea admitted it was developing a bomb of highly enriched uranium, a violation of its 1994 pledge to freeze nuclear weapons programs.
Democrats and Republicans over the years have used debt-limit fights to try to freeze nuclear weapons, ban school busing and allow school prayer, according to a 1993 study by Linda Kowalcky and Lance LeLoup, political scientists at the University of Missouri.
North Korea has stunned the world by acknowledging that it has been working to produce nuclear bomb fuel despite a 1994 agreement with the United States to freeze nuclear weapons development.
By conducting a clandestine nuclear weapons program, North Korea's leaders have declared their intent to develop weapons for which there is only one use, and they have abrogated North Korea's 1994 agreement with the United States to freeze nuclear weapons development activity.
In the 10 days since the White House made public North Korea's disclosure that it has violated a 1994 agreement to freeze its weapons in return for Western energy help, American diplomats have toured Asia, Russia and Western Europe to piece together a common declaration that a North Korean nuclear weapon could not be tolerated.
