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Rohrabacher Slams Dean on North Korea Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – A senior member of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific has added his voice to those who are severely criticizing the charge by Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean that President Bush is pursuing a policy to "allow" North Korea to become a nuclear power. In a statement to NewsMax.com, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., says the former Vermont governor "should get his history straight." It was Rohrabacher and his colleague, Rep. Christopher Cox, also R-Calif., who warned then-President Bill Clinton against trusting the communist dictatorship of North Korea's Kim Jong-Il. In 1998, Cox headed the special committee that exposed Red China's espionage and influence in securing U.S. secret nuclear programs. That panel's final report read "like a [real-life] spy thriller" according to Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schafley. In the '90s, Rohrabacher noted, over his and Cox's "strenuous objections, the Clinton administration began a policy of subsidizing North Korea as a payoff for not developing an atomic bomb." Then again last year, the Southern California lawmaker chided Clinton for supposedly having "stopped the crisis over the nuclear weapons program in Korea" by agreeing "to give lots and lots of money to North Korea, one of the weirdest dictatorships in the world" and trusting the communist government's word to use nuclear development only for peaceful purposes. While the U.S. fed the North Korean people, the congressman said, their government used its own money "to develop a nuclear bomb." 'Surprise' "Surprise, surprise," Rohrabacher said in the statement to NewsMax, "North Korea lied about its nuclear program. But President Bush exposed those lies," and for Howard Dean to now blame the current president for a life-threatening mess that Clinton made goes beyond the usual election year politics. Rohrabacher has been known to shake things up both with regard to China -- while many of his colleagues look the other way because of trade the U.S. does with that huge communist nation -- and North Korea. Don't be surprised if the Californian decides that a congressional hearing over the entire North Korean deceit is overdue. The administration still has hopes to talk North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons program -- this time with air-tight verification. The "weird" regime of Pyonyang has forfeited its claim to the "trust" in Ronald Reagan's admonition, "Trust, but verify."
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