McCain More Extreme Than Bush on North Korea
Posted by Ilan Goldenberg
So on top of North Korea McCain decides that on North Korea it's actually better to be more extreme than George Bush. From 2000-2006 the Administration pursued a failed policy that got us no closer to eliminating the nuclear threat and actually ended with the detonation of a North Korean nuclear bomb. Now McCain says he wants to return to that policy:
American leadership is also needed on North Korea. We must use the leverage available from the U.N. Security Council resolution passed after Pyongyang's 2006 nuclear test to ensure the full and complete declaration, disablement and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear facilities, in a verifiable manner, which we agreed to with the other members of the six-party talks.
Seems innocent enough, except it didn't work for six years and has now been dismissed by all but the hardest line Bush Administration officials. Glen Kessler has more.


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