And the Leftists are silent.

North Korea’s Nukes: Will the Free World Ever Learn?
Communists cannot be trusted

By D.J. McGuire
China e-Lobby http://www.geocities.com/china_e_lobby/
Jul 29, 2005

Another round of talks on Stalinist North Korea’s nuclear weapons began July
26 in Beijing, and unlike the previous three rounds, they opened with soft
words, an open-ended timetable, and an outward determination on the part of
all involved—the United States, the Stalinists, Communist China, Japan,
Russia, and South Korea, to reach an agreement that will lead to complete
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
In other words, we’re in big trouble.

Lest anyone forget, these talks are the fourth attempt to get the Stalinist
regime to agree to stop breaking the promise it made in 1994 under the
Agreed Framework, which itself included a promise to stop breaking a promise
it made in 1985 to never develop nuclear weapons. Each time, the Stalinists
were offered concessions in exchange for their supposed willingness to
return to the status quo ante. Each time, the United States and her
allies—Japan and South Korea—brought themselves back to the table to repair
what the Stalinists themselves ruptured. This time, however, the situation
is different: the Chinese Communist Party is in the game, keeping a close
eye over the actions of its allies.

In other words, we’re in really big trouble.

These talks are based on one flaw—a flaw large enough to make the entire
episode, including the agreement it spawns a dangerous mistake. That flaw is
the assumption that Communists can be trusted.

One would have hoped Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il would have already
proven that with his broken nuclear promises and his downright heartless
dishonesty on the issue of Japanese abductions. To this day, Kim has
insisted that eight of the thirteen Japanese abducted by his regime have
died, without a shred of evidence to back it up (the regime insisted the
bodies were swept away by a flood). Naturally, Japan, who has been a member
of the six-party talks since they started, has insisted this issue be
resolved. However, it appears the old arms control shibboleth—any agreement
by definition is a good agreement—is holding sway again. The dovish
government of South Korea is telling Japan to, in effect, put a sock in it,
while the U.S. appears to be ignoring the abduction issue entirely.

Meanwhile, the Stalinists are already building on significant concessions
they won before this round of talks even began. In October 2002, when the
Stalinists boasted of their uranium-weaponization program, a bold-faced
violation of the 1994 agreement, the U.S. insisted the entire program be
eliminated before even discussions of aid to the regime would begin. Last
year, in the third round of the talks, the U.S. had offered to let the aid
spigot be turned on before one single nuclear weapon was destroyed. This
time, the Stalinists also want the U.S. to stop sending nuclear submarines
anywhere near Korea, and is calling for a full-fledged peace treaty (their
previous demand was a non-aggression pact)—plus, of course, an immediate
resumption of aid. The dovish South has already offered to plug the
Stalinist regime into its electricity grid if it merely agrees to disarm—a
move Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already endorsed.

Why are so many democratic officials telegraphing their intentions to simply
take Kim Jong-il at his word? We are told this agreement will be different
because the Stalinist North would have to break its word to five other
parties, not just one. Specifically cited is the Stalinists’ oldest ally—the
Chinese Communist regime. This is where things really go off-track.
How can anyone take the Chinese Communist Party at its word on the actions
of its ally? This is the same regime that insisted Saddam Hussein was not a
threat to the free world as it was selling him missile parts and helping him
to integrate his air defense network. This is the regime that merrily
repeats Khomeinist Iran’s assertion that its nuclear development is
“peaceful” as it helps the mullahs develop nuclear weapons.

This is also the regime that piously told the world it wanted a
“nuclear-free peninsula” in Korea while selling Kim Jong-il tributyl
phosphate, a chemical essential for weaponizing uranium and developing
plutonium.

The only possible reason the Chinese Communist Party and its Stalinist ally
would be truthful in this agreement is the fact that so much aid is on the
line—Communists tend to be more honest with each other when it comes to
stealing other people’s money. Unfortunately, that honesty never includes
the victims themselves—in this case, the U.S., South Korea, and Japan.

Besides, what consequences will the Stalinists and Communists suffer if the
deal is broken? All Kim Jong-il has seen since he broke the 1994 deal is
more concessions at the bargaining table. Some will argue that he also lost
a continuing supply of fuel oil. However, South Korea just made up for that
with its electricity offer. Does anyone really expect Roh Moo-hyun to shut
off the power once the Stalinists are caught cheating again? He has already
made a slew of bilateral side deals with the regime, and his Uri Party has
an enormous stake in his “sunshine” policy. Odds are, he’ll find some reason
to keep the power on, and Kim, his Stalinist minions, and his Communist
Chinese allies know it.

So what we can expect is either a badly overhyped deal with phantom promises
by the Stalinists in exchange for real concessions from the U.S. et al, or a
promise for more talks in this new “conciliatory” atmosphere, giving Kim
Jong-il more time to hide the nuclear weapons he has, win more side-deals
from the South, and play “bad cop” to the Chinese Communist Party’s “good
cop.” Either way, the Chinese Communist Party will reap immense geopolitical
capital – as the midwife of a deal, or the beleaguered host trying to bring
the U.S. and Stalinist North Korea to an agreement. The recent heartburn in
Washington over Unocal, the Communist military, and Taiwan will be washed
away with good feeling or sympathy regarding these talks.

In other words, be afraid, be very afraid.

D.J. McGuire is President and Co-Founder of the China e-Lobby, and the
author of Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies
in the War on Terror http://www.dragoninthedark.com