Bush's failure, North korea is winning

George W. Bush has given North Korea everything it wanted. In return, the USA gets nothing. The UN IAEA will not gain access to north korea's nuclear stockpile or its secret files on weapons programs nor be allowed to conduct surprise inspections. Kim will continue to develop his long-range ballistic-missile, the Taepodong 2. He will likely continue to export nuclear weapons technology to allies in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The Bush administration has made a dangerous enemy, and the present agreement does nothing to mitigate that threat. bush has been humiliated by an unstable megalomaniac and ruthless tyrant. Bush announced he would remove North Korea from the terrorism list and lift economic sanctions. This follows a decision to provide Kim with massive amounts of oil to meet NK's energy needs--a fact ignored by the US mass media. former UN ambassador John Bolton blasted the agreement: "I think it's actually a clear victory for North Korea." Bush's goofed-up diplomatic efforts signal the beginning of another nuclear arms race. Now that Kim has nukes, South Korea and Japan will be forced to escalate to maintain military parity.

The Wall Street Journal summed it up like this in an editorial: "Most troubling is the message all of this sends to Iran, or other rogue states. The lesson is that when you build a weapon, your
political leverage increases. Play enough brinkmanship, and you can even receive diplomatic absolution without admitting to having the kind of nuclear device you exploded less than two years earlier. We understand that diplomacy often includes winks and nods, but it shouldn't require denial." (Wall Street Journal, "Leap of Faith") Kim blew up the "out of commission" cooling tower at Yongbyon. So what? North Korea did not develop its nuclear weapons at that plutonium plant, but in a parallel, underground program that made bomb fuel from enriched uranium. The demolition of the tower was a public relations operation to bamboozle people and help Bush save face.
the moral of the story is that America, or at least bush, faced with nuclear blackmail, will kow tow, dignify and fortify tyrants, fork over loot and celebrate the whole sorry process as a victory for home diplomacy.

Kim Jong-il now has a stockpile of 6-10 nuclear warheads. With a few finishing touches to his Taepodong ICBM system, he will be able to wipe out nine western USA states with the flip of a switch. Bush's bumbling has put Japan and half the USA in the crosshairs of a man loan home whose sanity has always been dubious.

xon (John Tiffany) 6.30.08

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