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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (309663)	10/18/2002 11:24:52 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

The peninsula will be unified within 2 years. 10 million S. Koreans will starve to death within 5.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (309663)	10/18/2002 4:37:22 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here's how the pros do spin: Yesterday we noted that Leon Sigal, a former New York Times editorial board member, had penned a 1998 article in which he boasted that the 1994 agreement with North Korea was a "triumph of diplomacy." Today Sigal weighs in with a Los Angeles Times op-ed, in which he implicitly acknowledges that it wasn't such a triumph after all, because one side did not enter the agreement in good faith: In the late 1980s, North Korea's longtime ruler, Kim Il Sung, decided he had no better way to provide for its security than to improve relations with the U.S., South Korea and Japan. When Washington, determined to put a stop to Pyongyang's nuclear arming before easing its isolation, impeded closer ties to South Korea and Japan, Pyongyang decided to barter its nuclear arms program for better relations. However, it kept its nuclear option open as leverage on Washington to live up to its end of the bargain. It is still doing so. . . . When Republicans took control of Congress . . ., they denounced the deal as appeasement. Unwilling to challenge Congress, the Clinton administration backpedaled on implementation. When the U.S. was slow to fulfill the terms of the 1994 accord, North Korea threatened to break it. . . . Pyongyang's tough bargaining tactics has led hard-liners in the Bush administration to conclude that it is engaging in blackmail to obtain economic aid, without giving up anything in return. It is not. It is cooperating when the U.S. cooperates and retaliating when the U.S. reneges. So there you have it: America is the villain. opinionjournal.com