North Korea in 60 words or less
Josh Marshall has crisply debunked the Bush team’s attempt to throw smoke in the world’s eyes at the failure of its “we don’t talk with the axis of evil” stance in regard to North Korea’s nuclear test. With the administration desperately trying to cloud the issue, it is worth simply reposting his description:
“Failure” =1994-2002 — Era of Clinton ‘Agreed Framework’: No plutonium production. All existing plutonium under international inspection. No bomb.
“Success” = 2002-2006 — Bush Policy Era: Active plutonium production. No international inspections of plutonium stocks. Nuclear warhead detonated.
Face it. They ditched an imperfect but working policy. They replaced it with nothing. Now North Korea is a nuclear state.
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October 11th, 2006 at 10:36 am
China is the puppet master
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=321523&rel_no=1
October 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
The “Agreed Framework” was never follow by N Korea, who secretly broke it by starting a secret nuclear enrichment program in the late 1990s. That work in part led to last week’s nuke test.
Bush has done very badly, but Clinton’s handling is hardly a success, given what we know now. The issue goes beyond recent partisan blame. CBC Radio interviewed a researcher who unearthed documents from 1962 where NK was talking about the need to acquire nukes. The USSR wouldn’t give them, and when it collapsed in 1991, NK then began its current quest.
October 12th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Kim Jung Be Illing is a pot-bellied, wackjob. That’s the bottom line. Everytime the left excuses that little piece of shit, it emboldens him.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Who is excusing him?
We’re analyzing how we ended up at this point of policy failure. At least it must be judged a failure, if the policy’s goal was to keep North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.