On the eve of the start of the six-party talks aimed at disarming North Korea, many opinion surveys in South Korea showed a substantial percentage of the public there blaming the US for the North Korean nuclear threat. While the six-party process has fallen well short of ending the threat, it has virtually eliminated efforts to blame the US as the culprit.
即使不动武并不在进一步行动的选择范围内，外交仍能产生好处。在旨在让朝鲜去核的六方会谈开始前夕，许多韩国民意调查显示，民众中有相当大的比重指责美国是造成朝鲜和威胁的源头。尽管六方会谈距离结束核威胁还相去甚远，但将美国视为罪魁的情形已经基本上看不到了。