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NORTH KOREA: Proliferation.(nuclear wepons in North Korea)
To the surprise of no one but the veterans of the Clinton administration, North Korea turns out to have a nuclear-weapons program. In 1994, Clinton, with an assist from Nobel Prize-winner Jimmy Carter, struck a deal in which Pyongyang was to stop developing nuclear arms in exchange for U.S. aid, including help in building "peaceful" nuclear reactors. The deal was struck because the Clintonites were unwilling to risk a military confrontation with North Korea-a fact that they more or less openly admitted. North Korea's response was to pocket our aid and keep on trying to get nukes. The worst the Clinton administration ever did in response to North Korean provocations- including a missile lobbed over Japan-was to label the regime a "state of concern" (unless, that is, the sending of Madeleine Albright to croon for Kim Jong Il was meant as a punishment). When the Bush administration asked them about intelligence reports on their nuclear program, the North Koreans admitted their breach of the agreement and declared it null and void.
There goes the last of the Clinton administration's great alleged foreign-policy achievements. Momentum on free trade stalled even before Clinton left office. The peace process in Northern Ireland is unraveling, and the one in Israel and Palestine . . . well, everyone knows how that's turned out. In each of these areas-as in North Korea, as in Iraq-Clinton's accomplishment was, at best, to kick the can down the road a few years.
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