Bill Clinton Said North Korea Would Dismantle Its Nuclear Program

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/08/09/that-time-bill-clinton-said-north-korea-will-dismantle-its-nuke-program-n1981099

"Before I take your questions, I'd like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Gallucci signed this morning. This is a good deal for the United States," Clinton said at the press conference.
"North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
"South Korea, with support from Japan and other nations, will bear most of the cost of providing North Korea with fuel to make up for the nuclear energy it is losing, and they will pay for an alternative power system for North Korea that will allow them to produce electricity while making it much harder for them to produce nuclear weapons.
"The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcbU5jAavw&feature=youtu.be

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

If anyone is interested in learning about how that particular deal broke down, the post had a good article on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/09/history-lesson-why-did-bill-clintons-north-korea-deal-fail/

katielass · F

@QuixoticSoul I remember how it went down.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

@QuixoticSoul

As your article pointed out:

"Interestingly, former Clinton administration officials have said they knew North Korea was cheating on the uranium enrichment front dating back to 1998 and planned to use that intelligence as leverage to keep the Agreed Framework in place and the plutonium under lock and key. Other Clinton administration officials will also concede that they never thought they would have to build the light-water reactors because they assumed, wrongly, that the regime would collapse before the reactors would be built."

Conclusion: the Clinton framework and the Clinton administration being snookered by NK allowed NK to get a nuclear weapon. Once NK got what it wanted why would it give it up? The tipping point was blown through and NK wins. End of story.

katielass · F

@jackjjackson One of his foreign policy advisors, forget her name, has publically said on TV more than once that they knew NK was cheating within 6 months. clinton's attitude was to kick the can down the road and let someone with brains deal with the bad guys. Just like he did with the 1996 report that he commissioned himself that concluded terrorists intended to use aircraft to attack us. And guess what, on September 11,2001 they did just that. We'll never know if he could have prevented it but he will never be forgiven for not trying.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

@katielass that report hadn't gotten a lot of exposure for some reason?

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@jackjjackson Ultimately, it was a delaying tactic. Forcing NK to enrich Uranium was seen as an acceptable outcome in itself - and the history of NK's nuclear program demonstrates just how much of an accellerant and a shortcut plutonium represents. Problem is, a delaying tactic relies on followup, and neither Clinton nor Bush could ultimately formulate a meaningful followup. So here we are.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

@QuixoticSoul nor did the Mrs Clinton, Edwards, Obama team and here we are. If you were in charge what would be do now?

katielass · F

@jackjjackson Yes, it is shocking the corrupt left wing media would fail to report on that since the conclusion pretty well lays the blame in bill clintons lap. It was the same foreign policy advisor who said he told his advisors around the same time that he just, in her words, wanted "to hold terrorism at bay and let the next president deal with it". She claims he actually said that. I can believe it. Sounds pretty much like democrat foreign policy.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

@katielass smh

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@jackjjackson The game was up after '06, and Obama inherited a nuclear Korea.

There aren't any great solutions or obvious moves here. I predict more containment and sanctions. Trump being at the helm increases volatility, but in the end his choices are as limited as anyone else's.