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William R. Richardson: “Well, that is so absurd. But we shouldn't concentrate on the blame game. The reality is, is, had we not had the agreed…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2006
Well, that is so absurd. But we shouldn't concentrate on the blame game. The reality is, is, had we not had the agreed framework with North Korea on nuclear weapons, they would maybe have 50 nuclear weapons today.

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Bill Richardson defends the Clinton administration's nuclear agreement with North Korea against McCain's criticism.

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Feb 25, 2019

But, yet, China and Russia are cheating and so what we wanted to do is go after the bigger banks.

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We absolutely need them to keep enforcing sanctions or the pressure on North Korea will deteriorate.

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I would not trade an end to the war treaty or unless there is a denuclearization of sizable numbers of dismantling of weapons and WMD and missiles.

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Russia needs to get tougher and they are not doing it. I think these U.N. sanctions were the strongest that we have ever had.

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