It seems we have
made a deal with Iran that is alleged to stop their nuclear weapon ambitions. This is a good time to remember when Bill Clinton made a similar deal with North Korea. How did that work out for us?
Via
LA Times:
WASHINGTON — President Clinton on Tuesday approved a deal
reached by U.S. negotiators in Geneva to stop North Korea’s nuclear
weapons program, saying the agreement “will make the United States, the
Korean peninsula and the world safer.”
Clearly delighted by what he considers a victory for his foreign policy, the President
appeared before television cameras to hail the agreement as “the first
step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.” He
instructed Special Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci, the Administration’s
lead negotiator with North Korea, to sign the accord Friday in Geneva.
However, the White House refused to release the text Tuesday, and
Administration officials said that it will not be made public until
after it is signed. Instead, Gallucci and other U.S. officials briefed
reporters on what they said are its principal elements.
The accord, concluded Monday in Geneva, gives North Korea a series of
economic and political benefits in exchange for promises to freeze and
eventually dismantle its current nuclear facilities, which the CIA
believes have been used to make the material for one to two nuclear
weapons.
“The North Koreans do have an interest in a political and economic
opening. They do have long-term energy needs. And we are addressing
those needs,” Gallucci told reporters at a White House briefing. “They
are giving up a nuclear program that posed an enormous risk to South
Korea, to Japan, to Northeast Asia and to the international
non-proliferation regime.
