Opinion: Former US Ambassador Laments 'Failures' on North Korea

I often refer to North Korea as "the longest running failure in the history of US intelligence." I can say that because as a CIA officer, I fruitlessly pursued the North Koreans for many years. As a diplomat, I can also say that North Korea has been almost a total failure of our diplomacy.

As U. S. ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993, I worked ha…