Why Bush is Seeking Confrontation with North Korea

Centre for Research on Globalization

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October 29, 2006

WHY BUSH IS SEEKING CONFRONTATION WITH NORTH KOREA

by Gregory Elich

North Korea's nuclear test and UN sanctions have brought relations between

the U.S. and North Korea to their lowest point since President Bush took

office. Yet it was only little more than a year ago that for one brief

moment hopes were kindled for a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear

dispute. At the six-party talks on September 19, 2005, a statement of

principles on nuclear disarmament was signed between the U.S. and the

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK - the formal name for North

Korea). The Bush Administration, however, viewed its signature on the

agreement as only a tactical delay. During negotiations it had firmly

rejected the statement, and was brought around only when the Chinese

delegation warned that it would announce that the U.S. was to blame were the

six-party talks to collapse.

The ink was barely dry on the document when the U.S. immediately violated

one of its main points.

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