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The North Korea Challenge

Posted by Matt in May 15th, 2008

In these two articles, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and John R. Bolton bring us up to date and discuss the larger implications of developments since Kim Jong Il pledged to give up his nuclear ambitions in exchange for diplomatic recognition and foreign aid. Pletka reminds readers that since North Korea signed the 1994 accord, it has detonated a nuclear weapon, exported a reactor to Syria, aided Libya’s incipient (and since dismantled) nuclear program, aided Hezbollah, provided sophisticated missiles to Iran, masterminded the counterfeiting of U.S. dollar bills, laundered development aid, and allowed hundreds of thousands of its citizens to starve. Yet the Bush administration “appears intent on the rehabilitation of North Korea and a broad lifting of sanctions,” she says. Bolton argues that North Korea’s proliferation is “quite likely more than a series of one-time transactions.” The underlying reality of the North’s activities, he says, “will haunt Bush’s successor and threaten international peace.”

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