China Is Our Last Diplomatic Hope for North Korea
by John R. Bolton • August 13, 2017 at 1:00 pm
An inscription stone marking the border of China and North Korea, in Jilin. (Image source: Prince Roy/Wikimedia Commons)
Former National Security
Advisor Susan Rice acknowledged last week that America's policies
regarding North Korea's nuclear-weapons program over the last three
administrations had failed. She said, rightly, "You can call it a
failure. I accept that characterization of the efforts of the United
States over the last two decades."
Former
Vice President Al Gore said much the same. They should know. They
served under President Bill Clinton, who started things rolling downhill
with the Agreed Framework of 1994. This misbegotten deal provided
Pyongyang 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil annually and two light-water
nuclear reactors in exchange for the North's promise to abandon its
nuclear-weapons efforts.
Pyongyang
violated its promise before the ink was dry. In 1999, former Secretary
of State James Baker denounced Clinton's approach as "a policy of
appeasement." Baker's characterization also applies to much of the
subsequent U.S. diplomacy. North Korea has always been willing to
promise to abandon its nuclear ambitions to get tangible economic
benefits. It just never gets around to honoring its commitments.
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China Is Our Last Diplomatic Hope for North Korea
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