Antiwar.com Blog » North Korea http://www.antiwar.com/blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Some Reward http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/08/04/some-reward/ http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/08/04/some-reward/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:08:30 +0000 Matt Barganier http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=5987 John Bolton’s mustache is twitching:

The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday.

Let me get this straight: two innocent people who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor are now free and safe, and all we, the people of the United States, had to sacrifice was Bill Clinton’s company for a day? No one tell Kim Jong-il I said this, but sucker!

]]> http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/08/04/some-reward/feed/ 10 If North Korea is bad… http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/05/25/if-north-korea-is-bad/ http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/05/25/if-north-korea-is-bad/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 14:03:38 +0000 Tim Swanson http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=5714 … for detonating a nuclear bomb comparable to the one dropped at Hiroshima, then what about Truman and the crew of the Enola Gay?

How was Harry’s decision any different than Kim’s? After all, as David Kramer recently noted, if Truman executed 144,000 Japanese civilians by firing squad, his actions would have been described as a mass murderer — which is just what Kim would be branded as.

Time to come clean about this whitewashed travesty.

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