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An adviser to Hillary Clinton, who provided background information on the condition of anonymity, said that Clinton believes the 1993 agreement was largely a success in that it deterred North Korea from reprocessing plutonium. Clinton credits direct diplomacy by members of the administration, who publicly rebuked and privately threatened North Korea in 1994. Through the end of the Clinton administration, North Korea refrained from plutonium enrichment. In this account, it was only when Pres. Bush rejected the framework agreement that North Korea secretly began to reprocess plutonium, which eventually culminated in this weekend's test. Clinton acknowledges that the national security apparatus failed to effectively police North Korea's hidden efforts to reprocess uranium in the 1990s but has concluded that the framework agreement generally contained the threat.
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http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/
This puts the ball squarely in Bush's hands and he dropped it magnificently. Five years and counting and Republicans still refuse to hold Bush accountable for his failures, preferring instead to tell lies about Bill Clinton.