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From: LindyBill4/5/2007 7:48:08 PM
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Bolton Slams Bush Policy in North Korea
April 5, 2007 | 1:31 PM ET | Permanent Link

In a speech this morning at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton slammed the administration's February 13 agreement with North Korea and four other countries on implementing a broader deal to denuclearize the north in return for economic and political benefits, U.S. News Diplomatic Correspondent Tom Omestad reports.

Bolton, once an influential and hawkish member of the Bush administration, predicted that the February 13 agreement will collapse when President Bush is forced to deal with the north's expected noncompliance.

"I think this deal will inevitably fail," Bolton said. "That day cannot come too soon in my view."

Asked by U.S. News why the administration had changed course in February and accepted that North Korea would receive some benefits before it had verifiably disarmed, Bolton said it was because of "the persistence of the State Department bureaucracy ... they've finally succeeded." Bolton added that he was particularly surprised that President Bush, with well-known views about human-rights violations in North Korea and terrorism, would agree to begin a process of removing North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. He cited North Korea's abduction of perhaps 15 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s as a matter that must be resolved before North Korea could shed its terrorism-sponsor status.

"The February 13 agreement let North Korea out of the corner it had put itself in," Bolton said. "Time works in North Korea's favor and against our interest."

Bolton argued that North Korea will not surrender its nuclear weapons and programs until there is regime change, saying that a real denuclearization agreement would constitute a "suicide pact" for the regime of Kim Jong Il.

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