Simon Tisdall (Guardian Utd): Nuclear double standards and John Bolton

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From the Guardian Unlimited
Dated Wednesday May 4

World Briefing:
Nuclear double standards
By Simon Tisdall

Many damaging accusations have been levelled at John Bolton, President George Bush's controversial nominee as US ambassador to the UN.

But perhaps the most serious is that Mr Bolton, as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security since 200, bungled efforts to dissuade North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.

Mr Bolton helped to scrap the Clinton administration's 1994 "agreed framework" that froze North Korea's weapons-related plutonium reprocessing programme. The framework was imperfect - but nothing remotely adequate replaced it.

In 2002, President Bush denounced North Korea as part of the "axis of evil". In 2003, Pyongyang withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and traded insults with Mr Bolton. In February, it declared itself a nuclear weapons state.

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[WhiteTara]

1. OMG This is the real reason

that Bolton should NEVER be appointed as Ambassador to the U.N.