Despite Clinton’s effort, the six-party talks have remained on life-support since 2009 and ties between the U.S. and North have progressively worsened amid Pyongyang’s ramped up nuclear and missile programs under Kim’s son and successor, Kim Jong Un.
The elder Kim appeared to put much of the blame for the growing “nuclear issue” on the Bush administration after it labeled the North part of the “axis of evil.”
“Kim added his personal view that if the Democrats had won in 2000 the situation in bilateral relations would not have reached such a point,” the memo said. “Rather, all agreements would have been implemented, the DPRK would have had light water reactors, and the United States would have had a new friend in Northeast Asia in a complex world.”
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