October 18, 2002

North Korea's Big Bang

One more example of the failed diplomacy of the Clinton years. Here is a medieval country unable to feed its people. Another rogue state that must be dealt with puts a strain on the Bush people to work this one at the same time as Iraq. Will the third partner in the 'axis of evil,' Iran be next?
USA TODAY reports...
This is a government that in the 1980s blew up most of the South Korean Cabinet on a visit to Burma and was suspected in the bombing of a South Korean airliner. An estimated 2 million North Koreans died in the 1990s in a famine that was the result of failed economic policies, natural disasters and the leadership's unwillingness to seek foreign aid before it was too late. The regime's main source of hard currency has been the sale of ballistic missiles to unstable countries such as Pakistan and Iran.

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