North Korea’s latest agreement on denuclearization will allow its government to continue working on nuclear weapons under the guise of “peaceful energy” and to isolate South Korea through false promises of a denuclearized peninsula. This “breakthrough” was achieved almost entirely at the expense of U.S. and allied interests.
President Bush and his inner circle regard Kim Jong Il and his system with an admixture of loathing, contempt, and distrust--as well they might. Unfortunately, a mechanism for translating that point of view into effective action was manifestly absent from the statecraft of Bush's first-term administration.
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(Publicado en Weekly Standard: del número del 30 de agosto del 2004: volumen 009, número 47) El poderoso librito de E.
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