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General Category => World News => Topic started by: ABX on May 01, 2018, 05:53:19 pm

Title: Learning from North Korea’s history
Post by: ABX on May 01, 2018, 05:53:19 pm

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Before meeting with North Korea’s very “honorable” (Donald Trump’s words) dictator, Kim Jong-un, the president should bone up on the history of that country’s duplicity and deception, including ways it has used the wishful thinking of some past U.S. presidents to achieve its objectives.
A good place to start is an essay written by Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute for the March 2003 issue of Commentary magazine.
As Mr. Muravchik notes, North Korea’s nuclear program isn’t a recent development. It began in 1979 and since then, its leaders have played the West, and especially the U.S., like a Stradivarius......

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/30/learning-from-north-koreas-history/ (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/30/learning-from-north-koreas-history/)