Rewarding Tyrants and Communism

J.J. Jackson* | February 14, 2007

Sooner or later the nations are going to have to stop propping up failed economies around the world. All this does is delay change in regimes like North Korea and continues to allow the tyrants that run them to maintain control over the people in those countries.

Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — North Korea agreed to end its pursuit of nuclear weapons in exchange for energy assistance and promises from the U.S. and Japan for steps to normalize relations.

Under the agreement, North Korea will shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor within 60 days, at which time it will receive the equivalent of 50,000 tons of oil in energy aid. Implementation of the agreement would begin “a month from now,” said Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Hill said at a briefing after the announcement was made in Beijing. “It’s not the end of the process, it’s the beginning.”

The deal, if it holds, will defuse a global crisis touched off by North Korea’s Oct. 9 test of a nuclear device. At the same time, its terms — exchanging tangible aid to the communist state for promises of good behavior — mirror a 1994 agreement that failed to keep North Korea from continuing to develop nuclear weapons in secret.

Yet again another communist country running to other countries and others to save it. These folks are a liberal’s wet dream! Always looking to someone else rather than fixing their own problems.

If communism is so great how come it can’t work without assistance from other non-communist countries?

I think this guy has it right”

“I am skeptical because North Korea has entered into many international deals in the past and never kept any,” said Martin McCauley, international relations expert at the University of London.

“All I think they will try to do is take all the international aid they can get, while attempting to progress their nuclear ambitions,” he said. “Their main goal is to take over the whole of the peninsula, and they will want to strengthen their position, and the only way they can do that is to progress with their device.”

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