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Hillary's North Korea problem
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Strategic Patience
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Date: September 09, 2016 07:40PM
Hillary's North Korea problem
Her 'strategic patience' didn't curb the rogue nation's nuclear ambitions — but neither did any previous policies.
By MICHAEL HIRSH 01/06/16 06:24 PM EST
During her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton oversaw a hands-off approach to North Korea with a policy called "strategic patience." | Getty
North Korea celebrated the new year as only it can this week, with a display of nuclear fireworks underground and a strident demand for attention from an inattentive world. According to a document signed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and read on state television Wednesday, the main point of the nuclear test was to "make the world ... look up to our strong nuclear country and labor party by opening the year with exciting noise of the first hydrogen bomb!"
As with previous North Korean nuclear and missile tests, it was not entirely clear how successful Pyongyang was this time; many experts suggested the seismological impact from the underground test was too small to come from an H-bomb. Nonetheless, the grim news of yet another North Korean nuclear test served as a reminder that at a moment when Barack Obama is trying to secure his foreign-policy legacy and Hillary Clinton is running on it, at least partially, their mutual failure to contain Pyongyang's aggressive nuclear program amounts to one of the administration’s biggest vulnerabilities.
As secretary of State, Clinton oversaw a hands-off approach to North Korea. Under a policy called "strategic patience," the Obama administration refused to offer any new incentives to Pyongyang to induce it to return to nuclear-disarmament talks following the collapse of an attempted deal at the end of the Bush term. The North Koreans were infuriated, and more nuclear and missile tests ensued, along with open hostilities between North and South Korea in 2010.
“In my view, ‘strategic patience’ was a polite term for sitting back and watching while North Korea continued to build up its nuclear weapons program,” said Matthew Bunn, a nuclear non-proliferation expert at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “I thought it was a mistake from the beginning. But given Kim Jong Un’s behavior, his unwillingness to negotiate seriously about his nuclear weapons, and the failure of the ‘Leap Day’ deal [an interim pact in 2012], the Obama administration felt it did not have a lot of other plausible options.”
Her 'strategic patience' didn't curb the rogue nation's nuclear ambitions — but neither did any previous policies.
By MICHAEL HIRSH 01/06/16 06:24 PM EST
During her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton oversaw a hands-off approach to North Korea with a policy called "strategic patience." | Getty
North Korea celebrated the new year as only it can this week, with a display of nuclear fireworks underground and a strident demand for attention from an inattentive world. According to a document signed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and read on state television Wednesday, the main point of the nuclear test was to "make the world ... look up to our strong nuclear country and labor party by opening the year with exciting noise of the first hydrogen bomb!"
As with previous North Korean nuclear and missile tests, it was not entirely clear how successful Pyongyang was this time; many experts suggested the seismological impact from the underground test was too small to come from an H-bomb. Nonetheless, the grim news of yet another North Korean nuclear test served as a reminder that at a moment when Barack Obama is trying to secure his foreign-policy legacy and Hillary Clinton is running on it, at least partially, their mutual failure to contain Pyongyang's aggressive nuclear program amounts to one of the administration’s biggest vulnerabilities.
As secretary of State, Clinton oversaw a hands-off approach to North Korea. Under a policy called "strategic patience," the Obama administration refused to offer any new incentives to Pyongyang to induce it to return to nuclear-disarmament talks following the collapse of an attempted deal at the end of the Bush term. The North Koreans were infuriated, and more nuclear and missile tests ensued, along with open hostilities between North and South Korea in 2010.
“In my view, ‘strategic patience’ was a polite term for sitting back and watching while North Korea continued to build up its nuclear weapons program,” said Matthew Bunn, a nuclear non-proliferation expert at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “I thought it was a mistake from the beginning. But given Kim Jong Un’s behavior, his unwillingness to negotiate seriously about his nuclear weapons, and the failure of the ‘Leap Day’ deal [an interim pact in 2012], the Obama administration felt it did not have a lot of other plausible options.”
Re: Hillary's North Korea problem
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...
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Date: September 09, 2016 07:50PM
I'm glade Bush took care of the problem with his strong leadership
Now
Hillary has a real plan
Trump does not
Now
Hillary has a real plan
Trump does not
Re: Hillary's North Korea problem
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Bush/Hillary one and same
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Date: September 09, 2016 07:51PM
There is one neocon on the ballot in November.
Re: Hillary's North Korea problem
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w4vFd
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Date: September 09, 2016 07:52PM
... Wrote:
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> I'm glade Bush took care of the problem with his
> strong leadership
>
> Now
> Hillary has a real plan
> Trump does not
What's her "real plan?"
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> I'm glade Bush took care of the problem with his
> strong leadership
>
> Now
> Hillary has a real plan
> Trump does not
What's her "real plan?"
Re: Hillary's North Korea problem
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Politifact
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Date: September 09, 2016 08:03PM
Bush/Hillary one and same Wrote:
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> There is one neocon on the ballot in November.
True.
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> There is one neocon on the ballot in November.
True.