Comments on: Clinton’s freeze versus Bush’s disablement

By: ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 02DEC07 at ROK Drop

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 02DEC07 at ROK Drop — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:14:24 +0000

[...] has past away. One Free Korea has a great tribute to the Congressman. - Nothing like more Clinton era revisionism of their North Korea policy.- This just makes you wonder how this would be handled if it was a [...]

By: BC

BC — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:45:20 +0000

I think both the Bush and Clinton legacies will be viewed similarly. During both they have had the chance to put an end to the North Korean regime. But both of them chose instead to focus on other issues and leave the crapfight that the end will be, to someone else.

By: DPRK Studies

DPRK Studies — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:56:55 +0000

Which Useless Deal with North Korea Was Best…

Kenneth Quinones, a former DoS official intimately involved in the 1994 Agreed Framework, compares the Clinton and Bush deals with North Korea (PDF), concluding that the former accomplished more in 18 months than the latter did in 7 years. Quinones, of…

By: Richardson

Richardson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:21:24 +0000

You’ve got to take what Quinones with a grain of salt – he is, after all, attempting to protect his own legacy.

The sum of what the Clinton admin accomplished is this; a freeze at Yongbyon, followed by sweeping reporting of the HEU program under the table and leaving a huge steaming pile of a mess for the next administration. Some legacy.