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| | ===North Korean nukes=== | | ===North Korean nukes=== |
| | [[File:ClintonTIME9801.jpg|thumb|190px|Clinton gave low-priority to foreign policy issues and anything that would take the focus off his domestic agenda.]] | | [[File:ClintonTIME9801.jpg|thumb|190px|Clinton gave low-priority to foreign policy issues and anything that would take the focus off his domestic agenda.]] |
| − | From 1985 to 1992, N. Korea "bought time" for its nuclear weapons program by entering into a series of international diplomatic agreements under which it promised to "deweaponize" its reactors and halt further production of plutonium. By Clinton's second, however, N. Korea had violated the terms of most of the non-proliferation agreements and withdrew from the rest. | + | From 1985 to 1992, N. Korea "bought time" for its nuclear weapons program by entering into a series of agreements under which it promised to "deweaponize" its reactors and halt further production of plutonium. Clinton wished top remove the possibility of a crisis before his 1996 re-election bid. By Clinton's second, however, N. Korea had violated the terms of most of the non-proliferation agreements and abandoned the rest. |
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| − | Clinton forged an agreement with Kim Il-sung that the North would temporarily halt its signed on Oct. 21, 1994 known as the "Agreed Framework."<ref>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aankorea.htm</ref> | + | Clinton signed an agreement on paper with [[Kim Il-sung]] accepting a vague promise that the North would temporarily halt its work on a nuclear weapon. The "agreement" was known as the "Agreed Framework."<ref>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aankorea.htm</ref> |
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| − | In addition to the oil supplied under the 1994 Agreed Framework, North Korea continued to the United States and other countries for free, unconditional food aid while eschewing any real reform of its [[Stalin]]ist agricultural system. <ref>http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/91-141.htm</ref> | + | The agreement gave North Korea food and oil. In addition to the oil, the United States and other countries rendered free, unconditional food aid while refusing any real reform of its [[Stalin]]ist agricultural system. <ref>http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/91-141.htm</ref> |
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| − | By 2000, the United States contribution of food and other forms of humanitarian aid to North Korea had amounted to over $61 million. | + | By 2000, the food and other forms of aid Clinton gave North Korea amounted to over $61 million. By 2003, the North Korean regime amassed enough time and resources to complete and test a nuclear device. |
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| | ===Iraq=== | | ===Iraq=== |