Diplomats

As the din around North Korea grows louder the voices of doves and hawks rise daily. In order for diplomacy to work there has to be some degree of trust but all too often diplomats fall back on hope. When Chamberlin was taken in by Hitler trust was replaced with hope. When Bill Clinton was taken in by Kim Jong-Un’s father he was counting on Un being and honest broker. Here is the quote from Clinton in 1994. “This is a good deal for the United States,” he said at the time. “North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.” Clinton agreed to allow North Korea to develop nuclear power plants with the promise they would not use any enriched uranium to build a bomb. Sound eerily like the US recent deal with Iran. Diplomats from free countries are always outfoxed by those from dictatorships and they cry out that the other side lied.