Trump blames Clintons for nuclear North Korea

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 09/20/2017 07:30 AM EDT

President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast blame for the nuclear-armed North Korea that his administration faces on the Clinton family, blaming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton for failing to disarm the regime of dictator Kim Jong Un when they had the chance.

“After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes,” the president wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning.

Months after her surprise loss in last year’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton has reemerged over the past two weeks on a book tour to hawk her memoir of the 2016 election, entitled “What Happened.” In public and in her book, the former secretary of state has been unsparingly critical of Trump’s presidency thus far, including his handling of North Korea.

During his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump harshly criticized the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/trump-north-korea-hillary-bill-clinton-242918

[underpants]

1. It's mommy's fault I didn't pay the water bill

F'n Snowflake

[sandensea]

2. He missed by one administration: it was Dubya's fault.

Bush's Trump-like saber-rattling is what prompted King Jong Il to rescind the agreement Jimmy Carter had obtained with Kim Il Sung in 1994.

IAEA monitors were kicked out, monitoring equipment removed, and the North Korean nuclear program - which had been suspended with the '94 Carter agreement - resumed full-speed.

[FakeNoose]

6. Yes I do remember this

Quoted from Wikipedia:

In early 1994, Kim began investing in nuclear power to offset energy shortages brought on by economic problems. This was the first of many "nuclear crises". On 19 May 1994, Kim ordered spent fuel to be unloaded from the already disputed nuclear research facility in Yongbyon. Despite repeated chiding from Western nations, Kim continued to conduct nuclear research and carry on with the uranium enrichment program. In June 1994, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter travelled to Pyongyang for talks with Kim. To the astonishment of the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kim agreed to halt his nuclear research program and seemed to be embarking upon a new opening to the West.[66]

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung

Let's see, 1994 who was our POTUS then? Oh yeah, Bill Clinton.

[Botany]

3. Bill Clinton stopped N. Korea from getting a nuclear weapon because he used diplomacy

Gov. Richardson of New Mexico used to meet a delegation from N. Korea
in the Philippines and N. Korea got some excess food stuffs from the U.S.
and then they agreeded to not make any nukes.

w bush quit talking to N. Korea and then they built a nuke.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Trump should spend more time learning, less time spewing nonsense...

Here ya go Donny:

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron

On Bush is where most of the blame should fall:

From a Nation article:

"Finally, the framework collapsed in 2003 after the Bush administration—which had come to office with grave doubts about the agreement—dredged up US intelligence from the 1990s to accuse the North of starting a highly enriched uranium program as a second avenue to the bomb. (It hadn’t yet, though it was scouting the world for enrichment machinery to use later.) Bush tore up the framework agreement, exacerbating the deterioration in relations he had sparked a year earlier when he named North Korea part of his “axis of evil” in January 2002. In response, the North kicked out the IAEA inspectors and began building what would become its first bomb, in 2006, triggering a second nuclear crisis that continues to this day. “I think they were [cheating] to hedge their bets because we were cheating too,” Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to Colin Powell in 2002, recently told The Real News.

In other words, the full story is complicated, and blame can easily be cast on both sides. But the results were disastrous, as Sigal summarized in his masterful history of US–North Korean negotiations published last year by the Korean Institute for National Unification and Columbia Law School.

“When President Bush took office, North Korea, thanks to diplomacy, had stopped testing longer-range missiles,” he wrote. “It had less than a bomb’s worth of plutonium and was verifiably not making more. Six years later, as a result of Washington’s broken promises and financial sanctions, it had seven to nine bombs’ worth [of plutonium], had resumed longer-range test launches, and felt free to test nuclear weapons.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/diplomacy-with-north-korea-has-worked-before-and-can-work-again/

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Yeah, Like That's Gonna Happen!

I know we can wish it, but we both no there's no way that will happen.

[leftofcool]

5. Deal with it shit head!

[keithbvadu2]

8. So Trump is going to 'disarm' NK?

[47of74]

9. Of course, with fornicate face everything is either the fault of...

...President Obama, Mrs. Clinton, or President Clinton. Or some combination thereof.

Jesus, what a fornicating baby.

[forgotmylogin]

10. How 'bout you get out the way and let Hillary fix it?

You're the one who escalated the rhetoric, 45. Kim was waiting for someone to call his bluff.

[hamsterjill]

11. Trump just makes shit up.

It's really that simple.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

12. He's just covering up for Calvin Coolidge... n/m