Comments on: North Korea http://crdaily.com/2009/05/31/north-korea/ The online voice of the Carolina Review Tue, 22 May 2012 02:59:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cwjones http://crdaily.com/2009/05/31/north-korea/#comment-1148 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:40:03 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2117#comment-1148 Clinton’s 1994 agreement was already torn up due to the fact that North Korea ignored it and then did whatever they wanted. Expecting the United States to live up to its side of the agreement under those circumstances is not reasonable.

]]> By: * http://crdaily.com/2009/05/31/north-korea/#comment-1147 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:48:29 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2117#comment-1147 “Each time, North Korea has taken foreign aid and then ignored its side of the bargain, only to return with new threats and demand a new deal several years later.”

You forget that Bush also ignored his side of the bargain, jettisoning Clinton’s 1994 agreement to supply NK with food, fuel and 2 light-water reactors in exchange for North Korea’s abandoning its nuclear weapons programs — instead threatening regime change, imposing harsh sanctions, and announcing that he found Kim Jong Il to be loathsome. I’m not saying that last bit is not true, but Bush’s diplomacy was clearly meant to provoke conflict rather than resolve it.

]]> By: Duke Cheston http://crdaily.com/2009/05/31/north-korea/#comment-1149 Sun, 31 May 2009 20:15:58 +0000 http://crdaily.com/?p=2117#comment-1149 Chris, excellent work. I think you missed a motivating factor for the North Koreans, though. As Mark Steyn recently pointed out on National Review Online, they’re being intentionally provocative not just to get free stuff but to show other rogue countries that they can gain international prestige with nuclear weapons, which they then intend to sell to those other countries. Steyn documents the various meetings with Iranian officials that have taken place in his recent column “Speak softly and carry a big teleprompter,” if you want to check it out.

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