Wish we had know about these firm policies earlier,
All provided by the Very Accountable, "Administration Officials" And "Senior Administration Officials." Nobody even put their name to it.
Somebody must have been burning the midnight oil to get this "plan" typed up. Most of it sounds amazingly like the Foreign Policy that was in place in 2000.
The Bush administration has prepared a comprehensive plan to increase financial and political pressure on North Korea if it does not abandon its effort to make nuclear weapons, a strategy that could eventually confront the North with the prospect of economic collapse, according to senior administration officials.
Tailored containment? Sounds like sanctions to me. You know, the kind of things that don't work. Iraq, Cuba.
Under the new policy, the neighbors of North Korea would be encouraged to reduce economic ties with it, the United Nations Security Council could threaten economic sanctions, and the American military might intercept missile shipments to deprive the North of money from weapon sales.
Administration officials said the threat of growing isolation was the best way to force North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions and, if it refused, to bring down the government. Officials say that under their plan, which they call "tailored containment," they are willing to negotiate with North Korea but only if it first dismantles its nuclear weapons program
#1 Entirely different? How? Why?
#2 Later in the article it says "ALLIes will
not co-operate"
It is called `tailored containment' because this is an entirely different situation than Iraq or Iran," a senior administration official said. "It is a lot about putting political stress and putting economic stress. It also requires maximum multinational cooperation."
SO worst case scenario plans were made and KEPT QUIET while diplomacy continued and reached our goal of Containment.
North Korea has long been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States. The Clinton administration was faced with a similar crisis in the early 1990's when the nation removed the fuel from Yongbyon and indicated it might reprocess the spent fuel to produce bomb-grade plutonium.
The Clinton administration developed plans for a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea's reprocessing plant before it managed to reach an accommodation with Pyongyang. Under the deal, North Korea agreed to freeze and ultimately eliminate its nuclear program.
If the American People buy this spin they deserve their government.
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