Posted on 02/04/2008 6:02:00 PM PST by 3AngelaD
In 2005, the president changed policy toward North Korea. After years of withholding tribute and applying pressure, he switched to accommodation. It has not worked. He should...return to a policy of containment....the six-party talks have failed and North Korea is merely awaiting the end of the Bush administration...
The United States did not have an effective way to pressure North Korea. So in 2005, the concessions began with bilateral talks with the North, meeting one of Pyongyang's main demands.
State Department diplomacy achieved little, but Treasury Department sanctions succeeded. The Treasury accused North Korea of sponsoring international criminal activity, froze its assets in the Banco Delta Asia in Macau, and put the North on a blacklist that shut it out of the international banking system. This hit the leadership in the pocketbook and the North refused to return to the six-party talks until its money was released. Finally, Washington had leverage....
But instead of pressuring the North to end its nuclear weapons program before getting its money, the administration made a major mistake. It bowed to Pyongyang's demand to release the frozen funds and remove the blacklist in exchange for the North's promise to fully disclose its nuclear activities and disable its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007.
Chris Hill, the State Department's designated appeaser, worked to get the frozen assets in Macau transferred to Pyongyang and to remove North Korea from the blacklist. All last year Hill kept saying the North would meet an April deadline, and then a December deadline, "to make a final declaration of their entire nuclear program."
...North Korea met neither deadline and...there is little chance it will before the end of the Bush administration. Anticipating another Clinton....Kim Jong-il looks forward to a visit from the first husband...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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What’s McCain’s position on NK? Anyone?
He ain’t gonna torture them....
Good question.
PINGING nk list
PINGING nk list
Your question is like a joke waiting for a punchline...
The PRC will never do that. They see NK as a tool to test what they can get away with vs. the West without doing anything themselves.
Whether we get any quick visible result or not, we should tighten the screw and maintain the pressure. This is a battle of will and patience, something Dems or RINO’s do not appreciate.
The North Korean population has been a useful communist tool in that respect.
I got question who the man in that relationship LOL!
Just asking
Sort of like Mexico, President bush seems to be in bed with the North Koreans and both make him look like a dumbass.
Well done.
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