Even worse he got away unchallenged for blaming Bush for the North getting nuclear weapons. The blame properly belongs to Clinton.
To me Kerry's Korea declaration was the most startling event of the debates. Not only did he ignore the historical failure, but he ignored the fact that bilateral negotiations in this context is almost universally viewed as a strategic error by the diplomatic community. I am hard pressed to think of a case where a party has negotiated a separate peace out of strength. It is almost always a sign of weakness and collapse, which is precisely why the PRK has gone out of their way to insist on it. They couldn't believe their good fortune when the Clinton administration agreed to it and would do anything to regain such a position.
Holbrook likes it because his potential benefactor put it out there. He should have his sniveling diplomatic nose rubbed in dog doo for going along with this outrage!
O'Reilly hammered Richard Holbrooke with this tonight. He said that Kerry's plan for North Korea is just more of the same Clinton-Albright appeasement that allowed NK to gain nuclear weapons in the first place.
Kerry is a big fan of bilateral talks. Recall that he had his own personal bilateral talks with the North Vietnam communists in Paris.
Didn't they walk out of the talks, and Albright chased them down the hall .. seems like I recall some kind of story like that.
And .. when Albright entered a room to meet with them they thought she was the maid ..??