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CAMP DAVID, Md. - President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday there still is a chance to make progress on eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, urging critics to see what Pyongyang says in a required declaration before deciding whether nations are being too lenient. We need persistent patience, ladies and gentlemen," Lee said, side by side with Bush here at the presidential retreat where the two leaders met for two days of talks. "It's difficult to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programs, but it is not impossible.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With President Bush focusing on North Korea today during a meeting with South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement, calling on President Bush to change the course of a North Korea policy that has made America less safe. Democrats are fighting to take America's security in a new direction. A fact check on the failure of President Bush's North Korea policy follows below. On President Bush's watch, and with the Rubberstamp Republican Congress in tow, North Korea's nuclear threat has quadrupled. Though Bush Republicans have allowed North Korea's plutonium stockpile to increase, Democrats are fighting to provide the real security Americans deserve. I urge President Bush to appoint the new No...
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Fear is the greatest stimulus for a tyrant, fanning the flames of his regime. It is natural then that in order to overcome his or her own fears, the dictator goes to great lengths to be an even greater threat to others. This trafficking in fear is the reign of terror. In North Korea, President Kim Jong-il's greatest fear is being irrelevant and ignored, by his own people as well as in international circles. As long as he has nuclear weapons, he will always be the center of attention. The world has been beating a path to his door in an effort to probe his motivations, offer deals or, foolishly, attempt to talk him out of them. For the same reason, trying to remove Kim Jong-il's nukes directly will be futile. He must be induced to come to see that having nukes-for-show-but-not- for-use is...
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Security resolution The United States will formally introduce a new draft U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea today with the hope that it would be adopted 24 hours later, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. The measure comes as the United States and Japan have said they want the council to pass a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea over its claimed nuclear test by the end of the week. WASHINGTON - President Bush demanded stiff sanctions on North Korea Wednesday for its reported nuclear test and asserted the U.S. has "no intention of attacking" the reclusive regime despite its claims that it needs atomic weapons to guard against such a strike.
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While President Obama pushes soft power, the North Korean dictator plays hardball. North Korea's underground nuclear test and missile trials show that the regime is probing Mr. Obama's resolve. Pyongyang apparently has concluded that the president's rhetoric of conciliation and understanding betrays serious weakness as a global leader. Like all tyrants, Kim Jong-il sees an open hand as a weak one.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Facing nuclear challenges on two fronts, President Bush warned Saturday that Iran's suspected weapons program is "a very serious matter," and he stood with leaders of Asia and Russia in demanding North Korea's return to stalled disarmament talks. Iran and North Korea, two nations in what Bush has branded an "axis of evil," dominated the president's attention along with trade and economic issues at the opening of a 21-nation summit of Asian- Pacific leaders.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell was expected to be the administration's vicar of foreign policy. Three years after his appointment, hard-liners in the Bush administration outflanked and humiliated him. On almost every critical issue such as the Kyoto Protocol, the future of the Anti-Ballistic Treaty, the Middle East peace process, North Korea and Iraq, Powell's influence is minimal, if not nonexistent. The president relies more on National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice when it come to issues on foreign policy.
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President Bush has been bombarded by criticism from Democratic politicians and the so-called liberal intellectuals since North Korea announced Monday that it had tested its first nuclear bomb. This is ridiculous. Although Mr. Bush's supposed inaction has been criticized, he has been trying to operate the six-party talks to disarm North Korea. I am not sympathetic to the criticisms, because they should instead be targeting North Korea's Kim Jong-il, as well as China and South Korea, the two nations that have been financing North Korea's nuclear programs indirectly, if not directly. There is a legitimate question to be asked: Who violated the agreement signed by North Korea and the United States in Geneva in 1994? The United States was faithful to the agreement and supplied heavy oil to N...
