Is North Korea's development of
nuclear weapons is Clinton's fault?
Some
basic facts regarding Clinton and North Korea
At
a debate in 2004, President Bush explained that his policy against
bilateral talks with North Korea would be effective in preventing them
from becoming a nuclear power.
"On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely heralded
denuclearization agreement with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and
South Korea. Pyongyang pledged to "abandon all nuclear weapons and existing
nuclear programs." In return, Washington agreed that the United States and
North Korea would "respect each other's sovereignty, exist peacefully
together and take steps to normalize their relations." Four days later, the
U.S. Treasury Department imposed sweeping financial sanctions against North
Korea designed to cut off the country's access to the international banking
system, branding it a "criminal state" guilty of counterfeiting, money
laundering and trafficking in weapons of mass destruction." "The Bush
administration says that this sequence of events was a coincidence."
Source:
MSNBC