North Korea tests Nuclear Weapon

Here's the BBC report. I'm sure this will dominant the news this week, and being just 4 weeks till Election Day the Republicans will try to frame this issue to their advantage. The facts are when President Clinton was in office we had UN inspectors in North Korea, we kept a firm line of communication open (allowing us to know more what the North Koreans were doing or planning on doing), and North Korea was not a nuclear threat. The day Bush came into office we cut off all talks with North Korea, the inspectors left, and our window into what North Korea was up to was closed. With the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress focused on a country that was not a serious threat to America (Iraq), they took our eye off not only the terrorists of al-Qaeda, but on the North Korean problem as well. If we want to move America towards a strong, sensible, intelligent foreign policy again we must elect a Democratic majority on November 7th.

-Justin