After reading the title, readers might think that I have gone bonkers. And rightly so — it’s exactly the time for non-ordinary thinking. I repeat my earlier words: The old-world order is over, and we must think out of the box. As there is more room for executive action in foreign affairs, we saw last October that South Korea has a long way to go to learn all “the bells and whistles” of independent engagement. Some ask even if we should be talking to the North: I’d say if we don’t speak, guns soon would. The current administration under President Lee Jae Myung is trying hard to talk to North Korea. However, all efforts are falling short, to the extent that we are losing important people. Take for example Lee Hae-chan, a national-scale strategist, who passed away on Jan. 25 while on a trip to Vietnam. His goal was to attend the meeting of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council to find ways to restart talks with North Korea. Yet, it seems these efforts have not borne any fruit. Think from the North’s perspective for a moment — after all, of everything we here in the Sou