Diplomacy fuels North Korea's belligerence - CoverUps.com

October 2007

Don’t forget North Korea

Thanks to a new diplomatic deal, the nuclear standoff with North Korea will purportedly end without war – not that we could afford another one of those. In exchange for a mountain of free stuff and carrot/stick handouts, North Korea has promised to disclose all of its nuclear programs, and disable all of its nuclear facilities. This new arrangement is being applauded as a levelheaded, practical, win-win solution to the problem of the North Korean nuclear threat.

Don’t hold your breath! We bring a summary of a thought-provoking article by Elan Journo of EnterStageRight.com, who reminds us that the regime in North Korea has a long-term behavioral pattern of deception.

• This new deal, like all previous ones, rewards the North for its aggression.
• The North's previous promises to halt its nuclear program were hollow. By 1993, after preventing required inspections of its nuclear facilities (which it had previously agreed to), Pyongyang announced its intention to withdraw from the treaty altogether. Our response? More "diplomacy" – in the form of the "Agreed Framework," brokered in 1994, courtesy of President Clinton and former President Carter.
• The United States, with Japan and South Korea, paid for their lavish gifts to North Korea – and were played for suckers by Kim Jong Ill.
• Meanwhile, North Korea, with our help, furtively completed two nuclear reactors capable of yielding weapons-grade fuel.
• What made this cycle of appeasement possible? And why do our political and intellectual leaders insist that further "diplomacy" will work?
• Because they reject moral judgment and cling to the fiction that North Korea shares our basic goals of prosperity and peace.
• What the advocates of diplomacy believe, in effect, is that pouring gasoline onto an inferno will extinguish the fire -- so long as we all agree that it will.
• This fantasy underlies the notion that the right mix of economic aid and diplomatic pressure can persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. It ignores the fact that the North is a militant dictatorship that acquires and maintains power solely by force, looting the wealth of its enslaved citizens and threatening to do the same to its neighbors
• There is only one solution to the "North Korea problem": the United States and its allies must abandon the ineffective, immoral, and suicidal policy of appeasement.

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Diplomacy Only Encourages North Korea's Belligerence
By Elan Journo

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Our Take

North Korea has been quiet lately, but that does not erase the pattern of deception and deviousness that characterizes this despotic regime, an antiquated, anarchistic throwback to the good ol’ Soviet days, before the capitalist/communist ideological argument was won by capitalism. While Iran and Iraq simmer, keep your eye on North Korea, the third member of the Axis of Evil.

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