WEEKEND JOURNAL: "How To Deal With a Dictator: North Korea's recent nuclear test is the regime's latest act of dangerous defiance," by Robert Joseph, Wall Street Journal, 6-7 June 2009.

Guy argues for a far tougher and more aggressive effort on the part of the U.S.

Why?

Kim Jong Il understands that the very survival of his regime, particularly as it transitions to his young heir, is dependent on his country being isolated. If he or his successor opens it up, they could well suffer the fate of Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who was deposed and executed in a violent overthrow following the collapse of communism. In fact, reports suggest that Kim was almost fixated as he watched those fatal events unfold in real time.

Kim is smart enough to be scared and he should be. China's security agencies spent some time in recent years interviewing key participants in Ceausescu's fall, to include Soviet KGB operatives who helped engineer it on Kremlin orders.