Had that agreement been implemented, there would not have been a North Korean bomb test or the heightened conflict, always verging on the edge of nuclear war. Much as in the case of Iran during the same years, the Bush administration chose confrontation over diplomacy, immediately undermining the accord. It disbanded the international consortium set up to provide the light-water reactor, renewed threats of force and pressured banks to freeze North Korea’s hard-currency accounts. The grounds were that North Korea was using banks for illegal transfers, perhaps for counterfeiting, though the evidence is sketchy at best. The lesson from the cycle of reciprocation and retaliation, talks and threats, is as Sigal observes: Diplomacy can work, if conducted in good faith.
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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006
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