An editorial printed in the Tuesday edition of the Washington Post has called U.S. policy on North Korea “incoherent.”

The U.S. daily compared the different stances taken up by President Barack Obama and special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth on Pyongyang’s recent rocket launch.

The report cited that shortly after the North launched its rocket, Obama sternly declared that "rules must be binding" and "violations must be punished.” He then dispatched his U.N. ambassador to seek an immediate resolution from the Security Council.

Bosworth, meanwhile, had publicly declared two days before the rocket launch that "pressure is not the most productive line of approach" in dealing with the North.

The report said that incoherence has been the defining characteristic of U.S. policy toward North Korea and that not much seems to have changed as the George W. Bush administration has given way to that of Obama.