Responsibility for North Korea’s Nuclear Aspirations Falls Squarely on Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton as the president of the United States was known for many things…not many of which were good.  The few crowning achievements of the Clinton administration actually came at a dear price for the Jackass Party because he dared to [GASP!] cooperate with the Republican-majority Congress and passed legislation he really didn’t want to, but did so out of respect for the wishes of the people (a rare thing among presidents and elected officials).

After losing the majority in the House of Representatives, Bill Clinton felt that this was a strong repudiation of the current path of lawmaking that plagued the Democrat-controlled Congress and then felt obligated to start working with the Republicans and Speaker Newt Gingrich.  The result was some of the most effective bookkeeping at the time for the US government, for which Clinton takes credit for himself.

One of the little talked-about decisions, however, was his stance with North Korea in the days when that nation was as yet a viable military power to be able to effect a strong presence in the Pacific.

Former President Bill Clinton thought he saved the world from a nuclear North Korea more than two decades ago, but he was wrong.
North Korea now has an intercontinental ballistic missile that can range most of the continental U.S., and a new Defense Intelligence Agency assessment suggests that North Korea has successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads for its missiles. The North is, according to a recent defense intelligence report, expected to be able to field a reliable, nuclear-armed ICBM as early as next year.

In the early 1990s, Clinton faced a growing nuclear threat from North Korea, but he ultimately chose diplomacy and deals over the application of military force.

“I was determined to prevent North Korea from developing a nuclear arsenal, even at the risk of war,” Clinton wrote in his memoirs. He decided to change course after receiving “a sobering estimate of the staggering losses both sides would suffer if war broke out.”

Before North Korea had nuclear weapons, the anticipated casualty count in the event of a renewed conflict on the peninsula was in the hundreds of thousands. Instead of war, Clinton chose the Agreed Framework, promising billions of dollars in aid for a North Korean nuclear freeze.

“This is a good deal for the United States,” he said at the time. “North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.”

Sound familiar?  This sounds very reminiscent of the Obama deal with Iran on their nuclear capability.  According to Clinton, he had a moment of clarity when he heard that the estimate of losses on both sides if war broke out would be in the “hundreds of thousands.”  That number, in the early 1990s, was too much for Clinton and he blinked, deciding instead to ensure that a diplomatic solution was reached that would disallow North Korea from reaching a goal of creating a nuclear arsenal.  The solution, of course, was to throw hundreds of millions at them and cross our fingers, hoping that they would keep their promise and wouldn’t continue on the path to nuclear capability.

Obama also signed a similar agreement with Iran.  As they cheered and chanted “Death to America!” he bowed to their demands for tens of billions of dollars, sanctions lifted, and food delivered.  Kerry negotiated the demands of Iran and we, naturally, capitulated.

Clinton did exactly the same with North Korea.  And the minute he did, the North Korean government rejected the notion that they couldn’t develop nuclear weapons and…well…let’s just say that Steve Miller’s, “Take the Money and Run” was playing on the radio as the cash arrived at the Pyongyang airport.

NKorea Flashback: Bill Clinton on his deal with North Korea “The world will be safer.” Whoops. pic.twitter.com/HDf86yqbEq

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) August 8, 2017

The North Koreans negotiated in bad faith, however, offering false promises to convince the U.S. to unwittingly subsidize their nuclear program. The country began enriching nuclear material, and North Korea conducted its first nuclear test a little over a decade later. North Korea has since continued its steady march to becoming a fully-armed nuclear power. Evidence suggests that North Korea will achieve its nuclear weapons goals much sooner than analysts and experts previously expected.

North Korea advanced its program throughout the Bush and Obama administrations, bringing the U.S. to the risky situation it now faces.

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Donald Trump declared to the White House press pool Tuesday. “They will be met with the fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said, they will be met with the fire and fury and, frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before.”

While the casualty count in a North Korean crisis might have been high in the 1990s, the cost of a conflict now that North Korea has nuclear weapons would be in the millions.

The moral of the story is that whenever a Liberal opts to make money through the Military Industrial Complex (with the willing help of the Republican Estabishmentariat) he always reverts to the “diplomatic solution” in order to grant his enemy a “chance at fairness.”  If we are the aggressor (and according to Leftists, we ALWAYS are) then it’s only fair that we allow them to become the aggressor.  If it involves granting billions of taxpayer money and giving the enemy the chance to build weapons of mass destruction, so be it.

Bill Clinton took a gamble in the 1990s and it has famously paid off for the Democrats.  Of course, now, it will take a Republican like Donald Trump to resolve the situation.

Source:  The Daily Caller