No Sign of N. Korea Nuclear Program Under Clinton

Reuters ^ | 10/17/02

[Brian Mosely]

This is the biggest load of Barbra Streisand I've ever heard.

[MinuteGal]

Oh, boy, would I like to see a couple memos and reports surface that the former Traitor-in-Chief had been warned about the North Korean nuclear program.

Please, God?

Leni

[RightWhale]

Wendy Sherman

It would be safe to assume that the nuke program begun under Japanese rule continued, after a pause during active fighting following the surprise N Kor attack on S Kor, right through to the present.

[Steve_Seattle]

I wonder why the word "evidence" is placed in quotes by the author, since the North Koreans admitted to having an ongoing nuclear weapons program in violation of the treaty.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

It certainly has only become known in the recent past. It is not a program we were aware of during the Clinton years," she said.

Hey! It's the "we're dumb as posts" defense.

Glad to see it. It suits the Clinton Administration so well.

[michaelt]

Once again, the Clinton Administration is either stupid or lying.

[Steve_Seattle]

Obviously, the Clinton administration overlooked the North Korean nuclear weapons program because it was so busy developing that highly detailed plan to fight al Quaida that we heard about a few weeks ago. You can't expect them to do everything, can you?

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Lets see,.. UN Weapons inspections stopped under Clinton. They had NO CLUE that N. Korea was a threat. They didn't know about the terrorists in the Phillipines. They didn't know that 100's of thousands of people were victim to Genocide in the Sudan. They allowed the passing of the Toricelli ammendment, which tied the hands of our agents who were out in the field getting down and dirty with some really dangerous characters.

The list goes on and on.....

What the hell DID Clinton KNOW?

CLinton is going to be viewed historically as the most inept and dangerously so, President that we had in our history.

Goes to show that the old sayings "Character matters" and "beware smooth talkers" are still as relevant today as they were a couple decades ago.

We are reaping what the Democrats sowed.

Prayers for President Bush and his administration as they mop up the mess!!

[M. Thatcher]

It's the "we're dumb as posts" defense.

You are so right, and you notice how this Sherman chick immediately goes right into scolding Bush, without taking a breath or pausing for a split second to be embarrassed. These people are beyond shameless.

[Darth Dan]

She urged the Bush administration to pursue a multinational solution "very carefully, very deliberately, very thoughtfully because the stakes are very high."

Wow! How many times can the word "very" be used in a quote? It's like she's trying to "talk down" to Bush, as if he's a little kid & doesn't know how to handle foreign policy. And what's with this "mulit-national" crap?

[Steve_Seattle]

She urged the Bush administration to pursue a multinational solution "very carefully, very deliberately, very thoughtfully because the stakes are very high."

I don't think the Bush administration is capable of that. This sounds like a job for Jimmy Carter.

[rudypoot]

The media is already defending Bill, eh? Pleading ignorance in this case is as good as pleading incompetence.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I knew this would happen and predicted it as soon as word of this incredible stupidity was released.

The Clownton Administration was both stupid and lying.

[rudypoot]

"Evidence" is probably the same thing those boneheaded liberals were looking for in order to vote for the Iraq resolution.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Clear as day and not too far off, clinton is going to posted as being somewhere between Carter and LBJ as most inept Presidents of the 20th Century.

[Mr. Lucky]

They're both.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's more difficult to notice nuclear weapons in North Korea with an intern in your lap.

[Eva]

Of course the Clinton administration did not see any evidence of Korea's nuclear program, they stopped looking after Jimmy Carter went over there and was assured that N. Korea promised it would not pursue a nuclear weapons program.

From today's Best of the Web:

In a 1998 article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Leon Sigal, a former New York Times editorial board member, explained how the crisis was supposedly solved:

Three and a half years ago, the United States very nearly blundered into war with North Korea. Neither the Bush nor the Clinton administrations wanted that outcome; but few senior officials were willing to take the domestic political risks to avoid it-by making a nuclear deal with North Korea. It took a former president, Jimmy Carter, to defuse the crisis. . . .

Carter . . . obtained Kim Il Sung's personal pledge to freeze North Korea's nuclear program, to allow the inspectors to remain in place and monitor compliance, and to discuss dismantlement of the reactors and the reprocessing plant in high-level talks with the United States.

The June 1994 crisis was a turning point in American nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. For three years the United States had tried to coerce North Korea into halting its nuclear arming, and failed. Then it tried cooperation and succeeded. It was a triumph of Track II diplomacy.

[KnotAcLue]

Or both. :)