Trump May End What Clinton Began by Bill Wilson
North Korea communist dictator Kim Jong-un has been rattling
the nuclear sabers and US President Donald Trump isn't taking any
chances. Trump, in a show of strength and warning, dispatched a US Navy
strike group into the west Pacific and there are reports that Seal Team 6
is training to assassinate Jong-un. Jong-un has announced his intent to
explode another underground nuclear bomb this week, and has threatened a
nuclear strike on the US, perhaps using a submarine. Trump told Fox
News that Jong-un "is doing the wrong thing," but refused to go into
specifics about his military plan. North Korea would not have been part
of the nuclear club if not for former President Bill Clinton.
Let's roll back the clock to October 1994, where after 17
months of negotiations, President Bill Clinton committed the US to a
nuclear deal with communist North Korea. Clinton is quoted as saying, "This
US-North Korean agreement will help to achieve a long-standing and
vital American objective: an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation
on the Korean peninsula." Heritage Foundation archives document in an
October 20 letter to North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, Clinton vastly
expanded America's commitments under the formal agreement to finance
fuel shipments and reactors, and to ease its long-standing trade embargo
and move toward first-ever diplomatic relations with the North.
Clinton's long-held belief on nuclear weapons was that if
everyone had them, nobody would use them and the world would be a safer
place. On June 11, 1993, the US agreed to not use force or nuclear
weapons against North Korea if it remained in the nonproliferation
treaty. North Korea continued to develop its nuclear weapons program. On
October 18, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed a deal to give North
Korea light water reactor nuclear technology if it stopped building
nuclear weapons, saying, "Today all Americans should know
that as a result of this achievement on Korea, our Nation will be safer
and the future of our people more secure."
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