Iran Follows in North Korea's Nuclear Shoes

Wall Street Journal ^ | v 19, 2013 | Claudia Rosett

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Mr. Kerry and his team have yet to address one of the biggest challenges: the example set by North Korea, which over the past two decades has shown the world—Iran, not least—how a rogue state can exploit over-eager western diplomacy to haggle and cheat its way to the nuclear bomb.

Since 1994, North Korea has cut a series of nuclear freeze deals, collecting security guarantees, diplomatic concessions and material benefits along the way. North Korea has cheated and reneged on every deal. Today, the Kim regime has uranium enrichment facilities, has restarted (again) its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, has conducted a series of increasingly successful long-range missile tests, and has carried out three nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009 and 2013.

The Clinton administration's policy coordinator for North Korea, Wendy Sherman, is now the Obama administration's lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear talks.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei traveled to North Korea in 1989, in his earlier incarnation as Iran's president. There, according to reports at the time by Tehran Radio, he expressed to North Korea's founding dictator Kim Il Sung his admiration that "You have proved in Korea that you have the power to confront America." Twenty-four years and three nuclear tests later, North Korea has provided Khamenei with quite a display of how that's done. It does not bode well for the Iran nuclear talks in Geneva.

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Any fool can see this.

Nobody can be this dumb -- so the only alternative is that this is deliberate -- help Iran, a terrorist nation to obtain nukes, by wasting time with inconsequential negotiations and "agreements".

[Mark17]

so the only alternative is that this is deliberate

You are correct sir, it is deliberate. The rat bastard SOBs, MFers.

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Bump

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This is the only article that should run on the subject tomorrow.