[Graybeard58]

Perhaps we can politely ask Kim Il Jong to get rid of his nuclear weapsons?

Clinton tried that...It didn't work.

[Starve The Beast]

Clinton tried that...It didn't work.

Bingo.

[NJ_gent]

Actually, the Agreed Framework wasn't all that terrible an agreement in my opinion. When you look over what was on paper combined with what was known at the time, it's a pretty decent agreement for both sides. What went wrong was that North Korea lied constantly, never really upheld its side of the agreement, and President Clinton did little more than sweep their non-compliance under the rug. That set the stage for the next President to have to deal with an almost certainly nuclear-armed North Korea. Unfortunately, President Bush has made no more progress than President Clinton thus far. Some rhetoric and talking doesn't go very far when we're reducing troop presence in South Korea and tying ourselves up in wars across the globe while continuing to allow NATO commitments to sap the strength and manpower of the US military.

In 2003, we could have crushed North Korea and removed a true nuclear threat from the globe while bringing all of Korea closer to the US. Now, we're just hoping they don't decide to start obliterating our allies in the area.