North Korea Wins Again

Well here we go again. This is really discouraging. I had high hopes that George Bush would take a hard line against North Korea to gain some semblence of control over them. But it's history repeating itself, again. Just substitute Condoleezza Rice for Madeline Albright and George Bush for Bill Clinton. Sheese.
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:
North Korea Wins Again
By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/11/2007
Last week’s international agreement on North Korea, which calls on Pyongyang to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear plant by the end of this year, is being hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation. In reality, it is a diplomatic concession to a brutal communist regime that has sought nuclear-weapons capability for nearly 50 years and that has repeatedly betrayed its past promises to disarm.
Consider North Korea’s historic behavior. In 1994, the Clinton administration launched its agreed framework with the intention of halting North Korea’s drive for nuclear weapons. America provided billions of dollars to begin construction of two light water nuclear reactors to provide electric power for North Korea. Encouraging our allies to do likewise, the United States also supplied North Korea with more food aid than any country in the world, while pouring fuel, medical supplies, and sometimes cash into the country. In return, America received a non-verified promise to abandon nuclear research.
It would prove a costly mistake. North Korea opened up the plutonium facility in Yongbyon to United Nations inspectors but immediately shifted production to a secret uranium enriching facility. The agreed framework collapsed.
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