Because the Iran nuclear deal was such an amazing success…for Iran.
Via Breitbart:
Moments after the Obama administration and world powers agreed to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, State Department officials said…that the United States was ready to re-engage North Korea in nuclear negotiations.
“Progress in the nuclear talks with Iran clearly demonstrates our willingness to engage countries with whom the United States has long-standing differences,” and that includes the tyrannical regime in North Korea, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday, according to a report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
Kirby said the U.S. was willing to negotiate with the despotic leadership of North Korea, “provided that they are authentic and credible, get at the entirety of the North’s nuclear program, and result in concrete and irreversible steps towards denuclearization.”
….Failed nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea during the Clinton administration allowed Pyongyang to receive billions of dollars in free cash and become a nuclear-armed power without issue.
U.S. analysts estimate that North Korea currently has around 10-16 nuclear warheads. Chinese estimates, however, say that Pyongyang may have a 40-nuke stockpile by 2016.
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NK must have pulled his chain after the sweetheart deal with Iran. For the tyrants out there, getting concessions from the U.S. Is the new global X game.
That sentence, “Failed nuclear talks…during the Clinton administration…”, is really not accurate. Clinton reached an agreement with NoKo in 1994 which lasted until 2002. With that 1994 agreement in place, it was suspected that NoKo was violating it and in 2002, Bush concluded that there was enough evidence to show NoKo violation, so Bush ended the money & energy resources that we were giving NoKo. NoKo then officially withdrew from the agreement and went full bore developing additional nuclear weapons (it’s believed that they already had some). Bush tried restarting some talks in 2005/2006, but those didn’t go anywhere (Colin Powell was SoS) mainly because the genie was already out of the bottle.
In summary; 1) Clinton reached an agreement with NoKo in 1994, and 2) NoKo violated that agreement. So the claim of failed Clinton talks seems blame shifting from NoKo violations.
Nature is strange. The world’s grossest behinds and Obama’s lips form a perfect match. So, of course he will.