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Crafting Alibis for Comrade Kim.(Correction, Please!)
ITEM: The New York Times for January 19, 2008, reported: "A debate is under way within the Bush administration over how long it can exercise patience with North Korea without jeopardizing the fulfillment of a nuclear agreement that President Bush has claimed as a foreign policy victory. With North Korea sending signals that it may be trying to wait out Mr. Bush's time in office before making any more concessions, administration officials are grappling with how the United States should react. The debate has fractured along familiar lines, with a handful of national security hawks in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and at the State Department arguing for a more confrontational approach with Pyongyang."
ITEM: Agence France-Presse, in a dispatch dated January 16 that was published widely, including numerous Asian media outlets; reported: "North Korea on Wednesday accused U.S. hardliners of trying to wreck an international nuclear disarmament deal and said the issue would never be settled if they resume pressure tactics."
CORRECTION: After the communists in North Korea, unsurprisingly, failed to fulfill their most recent nuclear disarmament promises, someone needed to be blamed--besides North Korea. Problems with the latest missed deadline, again predictably, are said to be the fault of "hardline conservatives" in the United States.
It doesn't take a true hardline conservative, assuming one could be found in the current administration, to see what is happening in the maneuvering with North Korea--just someone with enough common sense to read between the lies.
The U.S. special envoy for human rights in North Korea made a speech in Washington in mid-January expressing some deserved skepticism over the ongoing dealings with Kim Jong Il's dictatorship. The delicate sensitivities of Comrade Kim and the U.S. State Department were undoubtedly overwrought about the remarks made by envoy Jay Lefkowitz at the American Enterprise Institute, who was guilty of telling a bit too much truth.
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He was cheeky enough to mention that this North Korean regime has been involved in the counterfeiting of U.S. currency and pharmaceuticals as well as illegal drug trafficking and money laundering. And, yes, the human-rights envoy did mention that North Korea's human-rights abuses are infamous.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Crafting Alibis for Comrade Kim.(Correction, Please!)