NORTH KOREA, THE PARIAH OF THE WORLD. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM HISTORY? One has only to revisit Winston Churchill’s analysis of Neville Chamberlain’s meetings with Adolph Hitler on German soil to uncover the dangers of appeasement. Nazi military leader Keitel answered to Czech interrogation at Nuremberg that the Germans would have retreated from Czechoslovakia quickly had westerners called their bluff. Do we honestly assume peace from the North Koreans predicated on visits from a choir of intellectual midgets like Madeline Albright, Jimmy Carter and Bill Richardson. Is it now time for the administration to make it abundantly clear that further talk and nuclear/rocket tests by one of the world’s largest totalitarian army and closed societies will provoke a massive armed response from this nation. Are we not manufacturing another Munich and will we survive if we are unwilling to use our powers against tyrants and their militaristic ambitions? North Korean rashness must now be confronted. If we stop North Korea there is a lesson to be learned by Iran. Dr. Alan G. Phillips Sr.