Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Wolfsthal, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush Falls Short of Grand Goals on North Korea."
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Jon Wolfsthal, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush Falls Short of Grand Goals on North Korea."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven years of tough talk by President Bush failed to stop North Korea from enlarging its stockpile of nuclear bombs on his watch and Bush's administration is winding down with deep doubts about whether Pyongyang really intends to abandon its weapons program.
One area where there is widespread agreement is that North Korea has more nuclear weapons now -- or at least the plutonium to make them -- than when Bush came into office.
''He's leaving his successor a problem that is much worse than the one he inherited,'' said Jon Wolfsthal, who served as a U.S. onsite monitor at North Korea's nuclear complex at Yongbyon and is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. ''They might have had one or two nuclear weapons when he came into office. We weren't sure. And now they've got 10 and we are.''
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