Clinton, Kerry on Path to October 8th

RUSH: Okay, back to the audio sound bites. I want to go back to 1994. President Clinton, early on in the Path to October 8th, Bill Clinton declared the North Korean problem solved, made this announcement October 18th, 1994.
CLINTON: This agreement will help to achieve a long-standing and vital American objective, an end of the threat of nuke proliferation on the Korean Peninsula.

RUSH: And of course we see where we are. Anyway, now, go back and revisit how John Bolton explained to John Kerry that the Clinton policy failed. Kerry, questioning Bolton during his hearings to be UN ambassador, asked a question with the assumption included that the Clinton policy was a huge success, and Kerry says, “Are you prepared to go to bilateral talks,” meaning just us, “and the North Koreans?”
BOLTON: Quite the contrary. We said expressly that what we wanted from North Korea was not simply a return to the six-party talks but an implementation of the September 2005 joint statement from the six-party talks, which would mean their dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program.
KERRY: But this has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador!
BOLTON: It’s the nature of multilateral negotiations, senator.
KERRY: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done. That’s what the Clinton administration did.
BOLTON: Very poorly, since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.
KERRY: Buh…
BOLTON: And I would also say, senator, that we do have the opportunity for bilateral negotiations with North Korea in the context of the six-party talks, if North Korea would come back to them.
RUSH: There’s Kerry. He was just totally embarrassed and humiliated. I don’t even know if he knew it when it happened, because these guys don’t listen to answers. Their questions are pre-prepared and written out for them. I want you to hear this again since you now know what’s coming. Kerry says, “Well, why not engage in a bilateral one, get the job done? That’s what the Clinton administration did?” Here’s the whole bite again.
BOLTON: Quite the contrary. We said expressly that what we wanted from North Korea was not simply a return to the six-party talks but an implementation of the September 2005 joint statement from the six-party talks, which would mean their dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program.
KERRY: But this has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador!
BOLTON: It’s the nature of multilateral negotiations, senator.
KERRY: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done. That’s what the Clinton administration did.
BOLTON: Very poorly, since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.
KERRY: Buh…
BOLTON: And I would also say, senator, that we do have the opportunity for bilateral negotiations with North Korea in the context of the six-party talks, if North Korea would come back to them.
RUSH: Very poorly! (laughing) “Very poorly, since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.” (laughing) As all communist countries do.

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