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Article: Kim Il Sang. (failure of Clinton administration policy to force North Korea to cooperate in the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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THE "sincere condolences" that President Clinton expressed on Kim Il Sung's death were only the latest grotesquerie that his Administration's policy has led us into. Kim Il Sung, you will remember, was a totalitarian aggressor responsible for the deaths of 54,000 American servicemen and the torture and brainwashing of American POWs; his regime developed state terrorism into a creative art form, murdering half the South Korean cabinet with a bomb in Rangoon and planting other bombs on South Korean airliners. He was hellbent on acquiring nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them. In return for deceptive concessions, he was about to be rewarded with a ...