Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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I guess instead of the chimp's philosophy of total hawkish stupidity:

"Some administration officials concede that reactivation of the Yongbyon nuclear program is hardly the result they anticipated when they confronted North Korean officials in October with evidence of another program — evidence that they were cheating on their 1994 accord with the United States.

At that time they predicted, in internal meetings, that North Korea would come to the bargaining table. Instead, the reaction has been the opposite. Over the past week, seals and monitoring cameras have been removed; today North Korea announced that the inspectors would be expelled. Which means that it now has two active nuclear programs, instead of one.

"It's exactly the opposite of what we intended," a senior Administration official said this week. "In retrospect, perhaps it was predictable. But very little of what North Korea does is ever predictable."