I'd like to say, for the record, that I did not post the same thing three
times.

Nonsense.  If anything, GW Bush's practices delayed the settlement by
several years and risked a nuclear-armed North Korea.

China must be credited for resolving this problem because they have
more influence over North Korea than anybody else does -- they're both
ruthless Communist dictatorships, China provides major aid, China is
North Korea's biggest trading partner, by far, and only China
encouraged North Korea to fight the war over a half-century ago.

The administration originally did agree to 2-party talks -- a promise
made by then Secretary of State Colin Powell himself, and when the
neocons broke that promise, North Korea was infuriated.  And it didn't
help that GW Bush's Axis of Evil® speech mentioned North Korea and he
called Kim Il Jong a midget.

Before GW Bush became President, negotiations with North Korea were
resolving the crisis, but he changed their direction completely,
either because he didn't like them, didn't like Clinton, didn't like
his own father, was brainwashed by Cheney and the neocons, or simply
decided he needed to swagger like John Wayne.  That accomplished
nothing, and calmer heads eventually got him to go along with the
original Clinton plans -- give North Korea money in exchange for their
dismantling of its nuclear program, and that is what is being
implemented and is resolving the problem.

Frankly, I expected better from you, Jeff, than a rehash of the
Republican National Committee's talking points.