You Can Have It With Sugar On Top - Sweetening Kim's Deal

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,

To puff and look important and to say:

—“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.

We will therefore pay you cash to go away.” And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we’ve proved it again and again,That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane.

Rupyard Kipling

The Dane in this week’s crisis is Kim Jong Il, the grand panjandrum of North Korea. Last week there was modified rapture in the chancelleries of the six great powers engaged in talking to Kim—Japan, China, Russia, India, South Korea and the United States—because they had negotiated a brand new compromise with him.

... also known as the "appearance" of success!