Could DPRK Be Any Worse?
Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb argues that "nothing possibly could be any worse" in DPRK? I think this is the first bloggingheads TV diavlog that so well captures the humdrum Washington debate between Clintonians and Neo-cons on the DPRK issue right now. Just as in Iraq, no one can think beyond the fall of the government, or to consider the non-proliferation regime as a whole, and Neo-Cons assume that there's a nascent government waiting to stop an even more tragic catastrophe from ensuing.
Actually, Foreign Policy's Blake Hounshell, Goldfarb's interlocutor, is still just too optimistic about the disablement of the Yongbyon plutonium reactor, and both fail to mention the HEU (highly-enriched uranium) issue. The Syrian connection is a red herring, most probably more of the Israel-Bush administration echo chamber seeking to stir up a controversy to derail the Six-Party process.
In the end (and in "What happens if the Kim regime collapses?"), this is at best a much more civil, yet equally as arid and boilerplate a discussion, as the Korean blogosphere produces on a daily basis.
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8 months and 18 days ago
Thanks for the link!
8 months and 18 days ago
Recommended reading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303282.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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