High-ranking members on the House International Relations Committee are calling for more bilateral engagement with North Korea, in support of the so-called "Six Party Talks," to verifiably end the country's nuclear weapons program. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), who is expected to become chairman of the committee when Democrats assume control of the House of Representatives in January, welcomed the pending resumption of multilateral negotiations, but called for "heightened diplomacy, including new bilateral overtures," during a hearing yesterday on North Korea's...
