It's time to untie Korea from the US apron strings

South Korea sustains North Korea with food, currency, jobs. I guess these folks aren't really enemies any more. I say, its time to cut a deal.

The US should go to North Korea and provide this bargin: If you (North Korea) will sign a peace agreement with South Korea then the US will leave the Korean peninsula. Lot, stock, and barrel. Face it, the South is not going to really buy into the sanctions stuff.

Frankly, the xenophobic leader of the North depends on the largesse of the South to prop up his country. If the North attacks the South, all of that bounty goes by the wayside. That's better insurance than all of the US soldiers that we have along the 38th parallel.

The US needs to develop a different strategy other than either the Cold War approach or the preemptive strike doctrine of the current administration. There is a third option.