Bill Clinton’s Thoughts On American Foreign Policy With North Korea

Here is what former US President Bill Clinton thinks in regards to what to do about North Korea:

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said North Korea is a “funny country” that is good at making bombs and missiles, but unable to feed its people, and its leader Kim Jong-un appears to be “more militant than his father and grandfather.”

Clinton made the remark in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose Tuesday night, saying he “worked very hard” with former Defense Secretary and North Korea policy coordinator William Perry and then Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili to prevent a nuclear-armed North Korea.

“I worked very hard to avert this when I was president. And my former defense secretary, Bill Perry, and General John Shalikashvili … They went there and said, you know, this can’t happen, and so we worked very hard to avoid it with some success,” Clinton said.

The former president declined to discuss what the North Korea policy of his wife Hillary Clinton would look like, saying he wants her to speak for herself. But he added that the Democratic presidential nominee has suggested that the U.S. should toughen the sanctions and try to get the support of Russia and China.

“North Korea is, it’s a funny country. That is, they’re good at making missiles and bombs, and they can’t bring in a rice crop,” Clinton said. “They believe that you, and the news media, and those of us who are in the political world, all over the world, that all of us, we never think about them unless they misbehave.”  [Yonhap]

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