Clinton Urges Pact Before N.Korea Sells Nukes

Reuters / ABC ^

[RCW2001]

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, describing bombs as North Korea's only cash crop, said Monday it was urgent for Washington to reach a deal with Pyongyang before poverty drove it to sell a nuclear weapon.

Clinton, who was president during a previous nuclear crisis with North Korea in the early 1990s, said the United States should be prepared to sign a non-aggression pact with the Stalinist nation if it abandoned all its atomic programs.

"North Korea has greater capacity to produce atomic weapons than Iraq does, and less capacity to feed itself than Iraq does. So for the North Koreans, their 'cash crops', if you will, are missiles and bombs," Clinton told Reuters in an interview.

"So I think it is urgent that before they, out of economic necessity, get more irresponsible, we do what we can with the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Chinese and the Russians to make a big deal with them, a verifiable deal to end all nuclear programs and their long-range missile sales."

In return, North Korea should get "the international recognition they crave," as well as desperately needed cash for food and energy programs.

The United States should "give them a non-aggression pact if they want that, because we'd never attack them unless they did something that violated that pact anyway."

The latest nuclear crisis erupted when the United States announced last October that North Korea had admitted to running a covert program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

Pyongyang has subsequently expelled international inspectors and pulled out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. U.S. officials have said they fear it may already possess a small number of nuclear weapons.

Its actions are in breach of a 1994 deal with Washington, without which Clinton said Pyongyang "would have had 100 weapons by now, and the temptation to sell them would be overwhelming, because they're so poor."

He described North Korea's behavior as a form of attention-seeking.

"North Korea wants to be reconciled with the world, they want to be reconciled with their neighbors and accepted by the United States and other great powers. They sometimes think the only way they can get anybody's attention is to misbehave," he said in the interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"We can't keep going through this endless cycle of rewarding their misbehavior. So we need a comprehensive agreement here, and I think we should do that sooner rather than later because they can make big bombs, and do it well."

[My2Cents]

Bill, you're no longer President (thank God!). No one cares what you think; and even if people did care, your opinion is both irrelevant, and wrong.

[SwinneySwitch]

"Clinton, who was president during a previous nuclear crisis with North Korea in the early 1990s,..."

Clintoon was the president who created this crisis!! GRRRR!

[logic101.net]

Thats it Bill. They didn't honor your agreement with them, and used the reactors you gave them to build bombs. So all we need is another agreement with them and that will cure the problem, right?

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[Starrgaizr]

Oh, why didn't we think of that! Pay North Korea NOT to distribute nuclear bombs...

"Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man...his specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any...On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at he crack of noon everyday just to make certain that the chores would not be done...he invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the country." -- Joseph Heller, Catch 22

[Howlin]

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, describing bombs as North Korea's only cash crop, said Monday it was urgent for Washington to reach a deal with Pyongyang before poverty drove it to sell a nuclear weapon that he himself gave them the equipment to build.

[Howlin]

Poor Bill; he's having to sit out the world events today so he's desperately trying to make himself relevant.

And, see, he had to go to EUROPE to find an audience that wants to hear him.

[Teacher317]

Looking more and more like Teddy K every day.

[DoughtyOne]

"Now that I let North Korea develop nukes, you guys be sure and resolve the issue right away." Bill Clinton

This guy must have degenerative syphilis or something.

[pepsionice]

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[Only1choice____Freedom]

Desn't he kinda look like Ted Kennedy in this picture?

Maybe it just the spec's... or the wrinkles..

Or just the condesending look he gives us, the little people.

[IR8-1]

"do what we can with the South Koreans, the Japanese, THE CHINESE (!) and the Russians to make a big deal with them, a verifiable deal to end all nuclear programs"

Yo BUBBA.....sorry this is wrong, wrong WRONG!

What's up with the rats today? I think they're getting suicidal, but with all the (um...important "news" afloat today) they dont have the spot-light. (Maybe they think Rush is not around and they're getting away with this venom spewing opportunity, but it aint gonna work!!)

[DoughtyOne]

Or maybe it's the lifetime of drinking, drugs and the abuse of women that seems to have made them look like they are related by more than their perversions.

[prairiebreeze]

*Looking more and more like Teddy K every day.*

precisely what I was thinking...

[rep-always]

AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG. He makes me so mad. I cannot stand this man. Just shut up, go away and take that evil witch you call your wife with you.

[prognostigaator]

UNrelated but true:

Hillary Clinton died and went to heaven. As she stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, she saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

She asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."

"Oh," said Hillary, "whose clock is that?"

That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."

"Incredible," said Hillary. "And whose clock is that one?"

St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life."

"Where's Bill's clock?" asked Hillary.

"Bill's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

[Billthedrill]

Lemmee see if I follow this logical flow - NK is going to sell nukes as a cash crop because they can't feed their people and Bubba recommends we solve this with a non-aggression pact. Gotta wonder how many people that'll feed...

[PhiKapMom]

He described North Korea's behavior as a form of attention-seeking.

Takes one to know one! Rush was right -- he is never going away so he needs shut-up by continually bringing out over and over that this is his FAULT!

[ApesForEvolution]

xxxlinton is a traitorous moron

[Steel Wolf]

Bill...


Bill?


Bill!


Shut up, Bill.