Second act: as the North Korea merry-go-round keeps turning, Congress weighs a bill to encourage mass emigration. Good idea. Here's why it won't work.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, February, 2004 by Feffer, John
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN at times dangerously ambiguous in its policy toward North Korea. With a second round of six party talks likely for early 2004 and North Korea's nuclear program chugging along, the upcoming debate on Capitol Hill over a new bill, the North Korea Freedom Act, may well be pivotal in pushing U.S.
policy toward either engagement or increased confrontation. The stakes are huge: Even if the current conflict doesn't escalate into a shooting war, failure to bar North Korea from the nuclear club could set a poor precedent for nonproliferation and seriously ...
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