Bloomberg: Bush Uses Clinton-like Diplomacy to Strike North Korea Accord

[deminks]

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aKzY6BPmJJnM

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The accord struck by the U.S. and its partners to limit and eventually dismantle North Korea's nuclear program resembles one signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, a deal President George W. Bush denounced.

Bush, in his January 2003 State of the Union address, criticized the Clinton-negotiated Agreed Framework, saying Kim Jong Il's government all along ``was deceiving the world'' and developing nuclear weapons. Bush abandoned the deal in 2002 after North Korea admitted it had violated the accord, which offered energy aid for an end to the nuclear effort.

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Like the 1994 accord, the new agreement takes a step-by- step approach in which the North Koreans will be given specific forms of aid in return for taking specific steps to dismantle their nuclear program, said Desaix Anderson, a retired U.S. diplomat who headed the organization set up to administer aid under the 1994 deal.

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Bolton said it was a ``repetition'' of the Clinton framework. ``This is the same thing that the State Department was prepared to do six years ago,'' he said. ``If we're going to cut this deal now, it's amazing that we didn't cut it back then.''

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Wow. Article also reports on Condi's efforts to show how the deal is different from Clinton's deal. Heh, heh.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Is Bolton a loose cannon?

Of course he's always been a loose cannon but he was Bush's loose cannon.
Look like he's totally off the ranch now. Kookoo for Captn Kangaroo.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. 10 steps backward to take one step forward.