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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Regarding North Korea, I suggest some additional reading: Fred Kaplan at Slate [URL=http://slate.msn.com/id/2107518/]writes[/URL]: [QUOTE]North Korea: Kerry killed on this one. While Bush went to war against Saddam Hussein on the false belief that he might be developing a "weapons of mass destruction-related program," North Korea�another spoke on the "axis of evil"�started to develop real nuclear weapons. When Bush took office, 8,000 fuel rods were locked in a storage pond under continuous monitoring of international inspectors. As Kerry correctly noted, Colin Powell said publicly he'd continue on course�and President Bush publicly admonished him. Within months, the North Koreans kicked out the inspectors, unlocked and carted away the fuel rods, and reprocessed them into weapons-grade plutonium�in the course of which Bush did nothing. Kerry called for opening bilateral talks with North Korea to solve the problem. President Bush said such talks would be a "big mistake." If we sat down one-on-one, he said, North Korea would walk out of the six-power talks, which also involve Japan, South Korea, Russia, and China. Bilaterals will accomplish nothing. Kerry replied that just because Bush says they'll accomplish nothing doesn't mean they will. Point for Kerry. But it would have been a more solid point had Kerry noted that all the other participants in those six-power talks want the United States to have bilateral talks with North Korea.[/QUOTE]Via [URL=http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004-2_archives/000289.html]Brad DeLong[/URL]. Regarding the bilateral talks, Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63944-2004Sep30.html]write[/URL]: [QUOTE]On North Korea, Bush charged that Kerry's proposal to have direct talks with that country would end the six-nation diplomacy that the administration has pursued over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Kerry has said he would continue the six-party talks as well. Bush said direct talks with North Korea would drive away China, a key player in the negotiations. But each of the other four countries in the talks has held direct talks with North Korea during the six-party process -- and China has repeatedly asked the Bush administration to talk directly with North Korea. Moreover, the Bush administration has talked directly with North Korean diplomats on the sidelines of the six-party talks, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with his North Korean counterpart over the summer.[/QUOTE]Via [URL=http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480#2]The Center For American Progress[/URL]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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