RolStoppable said:
The Bush Jr. administration was the one who famously linked the entirety of North Korea to "the axis of evil". Bush singled out terrorists of other nations, but in the case of North Korea he said it was all of North Korea. At the time South Korea and North Korea were in talks to improve the relationship between the two nations of the Korean peninsula, but Bush's outburst caused great disruption and was basically the starting point to today's problem of North Korea's nuclear tests and provocations. It's known how the USA deal with terrorists, so it isn't all that surprising that North Korea switched into a high defense mode. Bush Jr. is also associated with making up an excuse to go to war in Iraq (Iraq supposedly had weapons of mass destruction or whatever the justification was). The North Korean regime may be problematic to begin with, but the actions of the USA played a big part in pushing North Korea towards its extreme status. |
I don’t doubt Bush Jr made massive mistakes with NK. But at the same time I have much less faith in the Trump administration to not worsen everything.
