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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
North Korea was not pushed to this by Bush, nor his cowboy diplomacy. It is a known fact that they got the majority of the information of their program info from Dr. AQ Khan, the rogue Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya. This shady dealings date back as far back as the 80's and 90's, again nothing to do with Shrub.
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My point is that with Bush in the WH, NK had no leverage and was not going to be able to posture, delay, lie and pretend in the manner that they had grown accustom to. Bush established a precedence with Iraq. If we had continued to let Iraq get away with world defiance and the oil for food fraud, NK would have continued on their path of development of nuclear weapons. Bush diplomacy works, just the way Reagan diplomacy worked. Bush deserves some credit if NK stands down on this issue.