How is Bill Clinton responsible for North Korea obtaining Plutonium?

Question

A lot of people here seem to think that Clinton is responsible for North Korea obtaining Plutonium. For those of you who do think this, please let me know who exactly provided North Korea with the reactors that they got the Plutonium from.

Adam says: "Clinton approved it."

Just what did Clinton approve? What is 'it' that you are refering to?

Answer 1

North Korea's feared aim to create nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles was a serious problem for the Clinton Administration. In 1994, North Korea, a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, refused to allow international inspectors to review two nuclear waste sites. The inspectors wanted to see if North Korea was in violation of the treaty since they were suspected of reprocessing spent fuel into plutonium, which could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons. Despite diplomatic pressure and repeated warnings by Clinton, North Korea refused to allow the inspections and even raised the prospect of war with South Korea, an ally of the United States.

After private diplomacy by former president Jimmy Carter, the Clinton administration reached a breakthrough with North Korea in October 1994 when North Korea agreed to shut down the nuclear plants that could produce materials for weapons if the United States would help North Korea build plants that generated electricity with light-water nuclear reactors. These reactors would be more efficient and their waste could not easily be used for nuclear weaponry. The United States also agreed to supply fuel oil for electricity until the new plants were built, and North Korea agreed to allow inspection of the old waste sites when construction began on the new plants. Unfortunately, North Korea never stopped their nuclear weapons development, as was revealed in February of 2005, when North Korea announced to the world they had a nuclear bomb.

Answer 2

Actually is was Jimmy Carter that got the ball rolling, but it wound up with a deal to provide, fuel oil, food and reactor technology to the North Koreans for a promise not to develop nukes. Clinton signed off on the deal, with the full support of all of his advisors. The same morons on the talk shows blaming Bush. The deal had no provisions for monitoring North Korea's compliance with the deal. Which it is well documented that they continued the development of nukes and Clinton and his staff knew about it but let the shipments of aid continue.

Bush stopped the shipments but did nothing else. So there is blame enough to go around.

The whole mess could be solved very easily. By the Chinese. We just need to let them know that if they don't deal with North Korea, we are going to encourage the Japanese to rearm. They are scared to death of a fully Armed Japan.

Answer 3

the Agreed Framework apparently prevented the North Koreans from producing any plutonium until the Bush administration abandoned the Framework in 2002 -- a point Clinton made in a statement responding to McCain's criticism. .. This excerpt shows that by abandoning the previous administrations framework , the Bush administration in essence gave North Korea the green light to restart their plutonium enrichment process.
I believe they were originally enriching uranium, a naturally occuring element, when Clinton gave them light water reactors (plutonium) and they dispensed --until 2002--their enrichment activities. Now they are reprocessing the spent plutonium in the reactors given to them, since no one has been watching since 2002.

Answer 4

Look near the bottom for 1995, U.S. Obligations -
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/agreedframework.asp

Answer 5

Clinton approved it

Answer 6

because he was too busy getting his freak on with Monica to worry about it

Answer 7

I told you the answer in your last question.

No need to repeat the question again.

Answer 8

here it is ok Of course liberals will deny it but here is a link


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/772130/posts

Answer 9

EVEN IF HE WAS RESPONSIBLE, BUSH HAS HAD 6 YEARS TO STOP IT!

Answer 10

you have just said "please give me all the Clinton and liberal bashing you can think of".
because that's all you will get.