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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnder Bill Clinton and previous Presidents N. Korea never built a nuclear weapon or an ICBM
The reasons:
1) We paid them off in food not to build a nuke.
2) We talked to them.
Under Clinton the N. Koreans liked to talk with Bill Richardson and he would meet them in some
place in the Philippines and after a few days of them talking about the American Devils and the
CIA he would ask, "OK how much food do you need?" And then the Dept. of Ag would see what
kind of surplus agricultural commodities we had such as rice, flour, wheat, corn, meat, poultry,
and so on and then we would ship some of those products to N. Korea and in turn N. Korea would
build nuclear weapons. It was a win win win because N. Korea didn't build nuclear weapons, God
only knows how many Koreans would not be starving, and American Farmers would get paid and the price
of their products were supported.
Then this "thing" happened.
But then in 2000 the SCOTUS installed w who quit speaking to K to the J w/ the I and L (Jim Ward's
hip hop name for Kim Jong Il) and the North Koreans even though they were begging to do so after 9/11
because they were part of "The Axis of Evil." So they started building nuclear weapons and advanced
ICBMs. BTW Trump's buddy Vlad helped Kim Jong Un's missile program by sending him advanced
ICBM parts and technology from the old Soviet Union.
I wonder if Joe B has Bill (he is a good man) Richardson's number?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Just so I can keep track, Virginia Giuffre was telling the truth about Prince Andrew, but she wasnt telling the truth about Bill Richardson?
BlueTsunami2018
(3,482 posts)I remember reading about that a long time ago but I cant seem to find the article.
Anyone have any info on that?
Botany
(70,447 posts)I don't know about N. Korea.
Scrivener7
(50,911 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)I never knew about that.
Scrivener7
(50,911 posts)got lost in the shuffle of the bigger names.
His was a big dissapointment.
Sympthsical
(9,036 posts)North Korea continued its nuclear program while receiving U.S. aid. They simply kept it a lot more secret when they were getting money from us. In 2003, they formally withdrew from the treaty, however, there were the six nation talks where North Korea kept going, "Yeah, yeah, this is all great. We're nearly at an agreement, you guys! Promise!" By 2005 a new agreement was in place. "This will work, we swearsies!"
Well, it did not work, because North Korea had no intention of making it work. They basically sat there buying time and using delaying tactics until they got to where they wanted to be.
Not even China could get them to knock it off, and China had a vested interest in making sure they did not get the bomb. It wasn't in their interests to give the U.S. an excuse for continued presence in South Korea and Japan, and North Korea has been our #1 rationale for a long time. China wanted us out, and a nuclear North Korea puts a huge monkey wrench in it.
If China can't get them to behave, a U.S. President certainly isn't.