Recommended: Charade or First Step? The United States-North Korea Agreement

I recommend Immanuel Wallerstein's essay "Charade or First Step? The United States-North Korea Agreement". Certainly it was useful to take a first step, but the history of our relations with North Korea suggests that taking the next step may be very difficult. Wallerstein's main point, though, is that this demonstrates again how much America's influence in the world has declined. His view of America's decline is not a popular one nor comfortable to contemplate, but worth considering nonetheless.