GLENN: Have you ever wondered what high stakes diplomatic negotiations sound like? Here’s a live listen into the negotiating table between North Korea and the United States.

Crickets...

That’s some high-level stuff right there.

The current situation with North Korea is this: we are now two weeks past the biggest ICBM advancement the North has ever made. They now have the ability to hit the entire continental US with a nuclear bomb. You’d think the State Department would be in overdrive trying to talk Kim Jong Un down. Is that what’s going on? This is a quote from Rex Tillerson on his plan for engaging the North Koreans in diplomacy. He said:

“We can talk about the weather if you want. We can talk about whether it’s going to be a square table or a roundtable. Then we can begin to lay out a map, a road map, of what we might be willing to work towards.”

In other words, this is what diplomats between the two countries are currently talking about:

Crickets...

NOTHING IS BEING SAID. Tillerson’s statement is the diplomatic equivalent to a husband trying to get his wife to stop giving him the silent treatment... “Honey? Are you awake? You’re right and I was wrong. Talk to me now? Please?”

It seriously sounds like we are now willing to accept negotiations without preconditions. That means we’re also probably willing to accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, because any conversation going forward won’t include Kim Jong Un disarming his nukes.

I seriously hope there’s some uber angle or master plan at work here, because if this is all we’ve got up our sleeve - with North Korea arming and aiming ICBMs at our homeland - diplomatic crickets are not going to get the job done. And when diplomacy fails, that’s when the real nightmares begin.