InState of Denial, Bob Woodward recounts a conversation between then-Gov. George W. Bush and then-Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, in which Bush wonders why he should care about North Korea. “I get these briefings on all parts of the world,” Bush said, “and everybody is talking to me about North Korea.”
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North Korea? Isn’t that the state north of South Korea, where the retirees all like to move? I can see why he felt the need to caution that state not to try to test a nuclear bomb – it would be a violation of federal law.
Hoppy’s got a point, the US government never recognized the end of the Korean war. The hostilities were stopped with an armistice, but in diplomatic terms the US only recognizes a single Korea with two governments that are in a frozen civil war.
what’s condi’s excuse?