Kim Jong-il Apologizes, Bush Doctrine Vindicated

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, under increasing pressure from China, has apologized for conducting a nuclear test recently and has promised that he will not do so again as long as the U.S. enters into either bi-lateral or multi-lateral talks with the struggling nation.

Note carefully three striking elements in this story. One, Kim has apologized--something that is rarely if ever seen. Second, he promised not to conduct further nuclear testing if the U.S. enters into either bi-lateral OR MULTI-LATERAL talks. The Bush administration has insisted on multi-lateral talks that include the Chinese. Kim has conceded. And third, all of these statements from Kim come from direct pressure from the Chinese government, the very reason the Bush administration has insisted all along on multi-lateral rather than bi-lateral talks.

You will not find this angle on the story in the mainstream media. The reason is not far to find. To concede that this is a victory for the Bush doctrine on North Korea is nothing less than an outright, stinging repudiation of the failed Clinton policy on bi-lateral talks that resulted in North Korea's secret, deceptive program of developing nuclear weapons right under the noses of the naive Clinton Administration. The reason Kim Jong-il has so long insisted on bi-lateral talks is that he got away with eight years of deception as long as he had direct contact with the Clinton Administration. That policy took China out of the mix, meaning that there was no pressure on Kim to conform to China's bidding. He could then talk a good game, assuring Clinton operatives that he was using the nuclear material we were sending them to 'bolster the nation's energy supply,' yet all the while secretly using the material to build weapons.

When Kim admitted in 2002 that he had been duping the Clinton Administration, including its token mastermind on foreign policy, ex-President Jimmy Carter, the Bush administration was further convinced that multi-lateral talks that included the Chinese was the only prudent course. Eight years of abject failure was enough.

And this is precisely another reason why the mainstream media will not give top billing to this part of the story. It vindicates the Bush doctrine on North Korea a mere two weeks before the mid-term elections.

George Soros, the Democrat billionaire, has been meeting on a daily basis with officials at the major news networks, such as ABC News, to make sure that any story that makes Bush look bad is headlined and any story that makes him look good is buried. The mainstream media has a vested interest in insuring a Democrat-controlled Congress as a means of punishing the Bush administration for implementing policies it hates, such as tax cuts, the war on terror, and the war in Iraq.

To concede now, at this late date, that the Bush doctrine has been a mammoth success could well lead to minimal gains for Democrats in November. Yet the truth is there for all to see.

The question is, will the truth prevail in this election?