Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle

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Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle

By Robert Parry
October 10, 2006

Months before 9/11 and the “global war on terror” – and two years before the Iraq War – George W. Bush tested out his tough-talkin’ diplomacy on communist North Korea. Bush combined harsh rhetoric and intimidating tactics to demonstrate to Pyongyang that there was a swaggering new sheriff in town.

In his first weeks in office, Bush cast aside the Clinton administration’s delicate negotiations that had hemmed in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. The new President then brushed aside worries of Secretary of State Colin Powell and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung about dangerous consequences from a confrontation.

At a March 2001 summit, Bush rejected Kim Dae Jung’s détente strategy for dealing with North Korea, a humiliation for both Kim, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Powell, who wanted to continue pursuing the negotiation track. Instead, Bush cut off nuclear talks with North Korea and stepped up spending on a “Star Wars” missile shield.

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1. If this world makes it to a new millenium the inhabitants will be

amazed to read the tales about our times and they will be dumbfounded that a bunch of thugs like this crew (fronted by a creature with lesser smarts than your average monkey) ever came to power anywhere. The only thing they can successfully do is steal and kill. They can't wage war with a successful end in sight, they can't govern, they can't make healthy and humane, decent public policy. They are total abject failures. Well, I guess that's one thing they can do. Fail.