Political Quotes

“this amendment springs from the recent situation in North Korea wherein the North Koreans have agreed to seven inspection sites, but they will not let the IAEA go anyplace anywhere to inspect. I had the humor of accompanying a Senate delegation to South Korea. Also, we ended up talking with Hans Bliz, the head of the IAEA, the group that is supposed to inspect for nuclear weapons. The international agency for the inspection, headed by Hans Bliz, needs to have the authority to go anyplace anywhere in the country. That was the position taken by President Clinton in December. But I was absolutely amazed to read in the papers that the administration had agreed to let the North Koreans off with only seven inspection sites. That means they could have a bomb elsewhere. This sets a very bad precedent for other countries. We have not allowed this in other countries. We should back up the IAEA. This amendment is a sense of the Senate expressing that the President should not engage in negotiations connected with normalization of relations with North Korea until that government meets its full obligation under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”