Now Comes The Hard Part
Former Clinton aides, meanwhile, say it’s nothing more than what they negotiated in the 1994 Agreed Framework–which would still be in effect had Bush stuck with the plan. As happens so often these days, the left and the right are converging to attack the president. But while the deal may not be perfect, both sides have got it wrong. To start, the new accord goes way beyond the 1994 agreement, which promised North Korea two light-water nuclear reactors worth more than $5 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars of heavy fuel oil in exchange for its freezing and eventually dismantling its nuclear programs....