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The United States and North Korea
ecthompsonmd April 2, 2013

I originally published this post approximately three years ago. With North Korea in the news again concerning its nuclear ambitions, I think it is important to understand the background. As soon as President George W. Bush took office in 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell stated that he was going to continue the actions of the Clinton administration. Quickly, Vice President Dick Cheney and other neo-cons in the Bush White House worked to silence Powell and reverse the steps that the Clinton Administration took to freeze nuclear weapons production in North Korea. I believe the way that the US-North Korea relationship

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Are Republicans Running North Korea? (Updated)
ecthompsonmd November 24, 2010

Editor’s note: I have two posts on the history of the United States and North Korea (here and here). I think that they are worth reading. North Korea has lobbed shells at South Korea. Two South Korean marines were killed and many houses were destroyed. (Above–North Korean soldiers peering into South Korea. Like you and I, these troops in the picture are people in a world they did not create.) This took place on Yeonpyeong Island. This is not the first conflict between the two Koreas over this island. President Obama has said that the United States will help defend South Korea if

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