There is something admirable about the government's determination to talk to North Korea. There is also something increasingly disconnected from reality about it. On Wednesday, Unification Minister Chung Dong-young told a parliamentary audit that last month’s land mine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) had made the need for “fundamental peace” on the Korean Peninsula “ever more crucial.” He is right about the need. But the incident points to a more fundamental problem: There is unlikely to be a peace process because the conditions for one do not exist. Just a day earlier, Pyongyang issued bellicose threats after the defense ministry informed lawmakers that the North had been planting land mines in the southern portion of the DMZ's no-man's land. Three South Korean soldiers were injured on Sept. 21, two of them seriously, by these mines. For the next breath to be an offer of peace sounds like we see it all as a ghastly misunderstanding. But it’s not. We’re in a complicated situation in which peace is not going to be created simply by deciding that peace is desirable. Th