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"While Mr. Obama was in the Middle East and Europe last week, several senior officials said the president’s national security team had all but set aside the central assumption that guided American policy toward North Korea over the past 16 years and two presidencies: that the North would be willing to ultimately abandon its small arsenal of nuclear weapons in return for some combination of oil, nuclear power plants, money, food and guarantees that the United States would not topple its government, the world’s last Stalinesque regime. [...]
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My opinion exactly since 2005. Finally. Just to add - Kim Dae Joong, the Sunshine Policy, and anything like it was an utter fail. Lucky for S. Korea, sunshine boy Chung wasn't elected to see a repeat of history, not only continuously of maintaining a holocaust regime, but of South Korea's liberal naivity. Obama and Hilary are surprisingly taking the harder line than the Texan dubber of the "axis of evil." I approve.
-JSH
