[imText1]Former U.S. State Department of Korea country director, Professor David Straub of John Hopkins University said on the 4th, \u201cThough the Bush Administration\u2019s North Korea policy is being influenced by Vice-President Cheney\u2019s impact on President Bush, ultimately it is being drafted under President Bush\u2019s own decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Radio Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA) informed, at a conference sponsored by the Asia Foundation in New York, Professor Straub revealed, \u201cAs much as the U.S.\u2019 North Korea policy is essentially settled by President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, there will not be much change to the position of power.\u201d <\/p>\n
Professor Straub said, \u201cThere is widespread misunderstanding on the Bush Administration\u2019s North Korea policy,\u201d and \u201cThough it is true that President Bush said \u2018Whatever the strategic plan, we will not be removed from the top of the mantelpiece\u2019 regarding North Korea, even so, this concept has never been seriously deliberated nor implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore he urged, \u201cEven the \u2018regime change\u2019 in which the Bush Administration has started to adamantly utilize against North Korea was not and still is not the Bush Administration\u2019s North Korea policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cIrrelevant to which North Korea policy the U.S. or South Korea proposes, in order to succeed, the two countries must cooperate,\u201d and warned, \u201cIf they do not, only time will have been wasted and in the end, North Korea will be the one sniggering down on the U.S. and South Korea.\u201d <\/p>\n
Further, he said, \u201cThe North Korea nuke issue is an issue that has persisted for more than 50 years and cannot be resolved in a day,\u201d emphasizing patience from member states of the six party talks.<\/p>\n
On a different note, despite North Korea\u2019s nuclear experiment, Professor Straub forecasts an optimistic Korea-U.S. alliance and said, \u201cThe future of the Korea-U.S. alliance lies basically in the North Korea issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[imText1]Former U.S. State Department of Korea country director, Professor David Straub of John Hopkins University said on the 4th, \u201cThough the Bush Administration\u2019s North Korea policy is being influenced by Vice-President Cheney\u2019s impact on President Bush, ultimately it is being drafted under President Bush\u2019s own decision.\u201d As Radio Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA) informed, at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n