The writers are right to urge engagement with and reform in these isolated statelets.
But the North Korean talks have also been an example of what happens when international diplomacy gets bogged down between hawks in the Pentagon and the vice president's office, and those in the State Department urging engagement.
Carlos Brito, chief executive of Belgian-based AB InBev, issued a statement to the stock market in which he called on SABMiller shareholders to voice their views to the board and urge engagement in talks to create a brewer that would produce a third of the world's beer.
Profound thanks are due, then, to those shareholder activists who urged "constructive engagement" with the oil, gas and coal barons.
Mayor Quan, who broke the Council's tie over the budget, has urged community engagement as a way to combat crime.
He urged greater engagement with local communities and said that future settlement deals between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians would be vital.
Trump sharply criticized some of his predecessors' aggressive policies and urged greater engagement with countries as diverse as North Korea and Russia.
Spain urges greater engagement with Fidel Castro's regime.
He also said that the Maliki government, which in 2011 was reluctant to see US troops remain in the country, was now "urging" military engagement.
