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Thank you, Bill Clinton. (Scan).(North Koreans developed nuclear weapons due to Bill Clinton's lenient arms control policies)(Brief Article)

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"North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. We have to be very firm about it" President Clinton declared on "Meet the Press" on November 7, 1993. Now we learn the North Koreans went ahead anyway. Is anyone really surprised that particular Commander in Chief didn't dissuade them?

Charles Krauthammer sure isn't. Back in 1993 he bemoaned, in his syndicated column, that Clinton's entire foreign policy was built on the principle of "talk loudly and carry a big carrot." This soon "degenerated into nothing but carrots: offers of diplomatic recognition, trade, aid, and most important of all, cancellation of U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises." In exchange, the North Koreans offered Clinton "inspections of the Yongbyon nuclear complex by the International Atomic Energy Agency."

But "inspections of self-declared sites are a joke" ...

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