|
|
Article: Problems with current U.S. policy.(relation with North Korea)
- Article from:
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Institute for Policy Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The Bush administration signaled early on that it considered the Clinton approach of engaging North Korea tantamount to appeasement. In 2001, Bush snubbed Kim Dae Jung's policy of engaging the North and put the brakes on the progress the Clinton administration had made in negotiating an end to North Korea's missile program. Disproving the notion that Bush's inclusion of North Korea in his Axis of Evil speech was only to preemptively counter charges of anti-Islamicism, the State Department's Arms Control Undersecretary John Bolton reiterated the administration's approach in Seoul in August 2002. "The 38th parallel serves as a dividing line between freedom and oppression, ...