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TO:

FROM:

Vice

PresidentRichardCheneyHonorableColin

Powell

HonorableGeorgeTenetHonorableSpencerAbraham

Dr.

CondoleezzaRiceDonaldRumsfeld

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Records

&

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Div,

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Date:

JUL

1

3

2010

SUBJECT:

RemainingFirmonNorthKorea

.

It

is

clearfromNorthKorea'sactionsover

the

weekendthatKimlong

n

istakingaseries.blackmail

us

intonegotiationswithhim.

Our

best

response

to

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thisstrategyis

to

remaincalmand

firm.

We

should

continuetodenyKimJongDthekind·

of

attention

hecraves

and

hasbecome

accustomed

to

receiving

in

response

to

provocative

behavior.

We

needtotrainKimlong

II

to

understandthatblackmailtacticsthatworkedwith

theprevious

administrationwillnolonger

work.

We

shouldstronglyencourage

the

IAEA

to

respondforthrightlyto

North

Korea'slatestviolation

of

itsSafeguardsAgreement.

The

lAEA

shouldcallaspade.a

spade,and

take

the

necessarysteps

to

refer

the

violation

to

the

UnitedNationsSecurity

CouncilandGeneral

Assembly

in

keepingwith

its

charter.Puttingthismatterbefore

the

Security

 

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Authority:

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&

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Date:

JUl

13

2010

Council--oreventhreateningto--willconfronttheChineseandRussianswiththeThereisnoreasonforustoshyawayfrom

UN

consideration;onthecontrary.

OSC

1.4(

cl

)

Theargumentthatsomemembers

of

thepreviousadministrationaremaking--that

North

Korea

is··resorting

to

provocations

because

we

refuseto

negotiate--has

it

backwards.

Gettingustothetableis

the

trophythatPyongyangseeks;forustogrant

it

in

response

to

thelatestnuclearprovocationswouldonlyreinforcePyongyang'sweakhand

and

provethat

bad

behaviorpays.

As

theAgreedFrameworkshows,suchanegotiationproduces

bad

agreements.

At

thesametime,

we

needtomovequicklytofleshoutthe"tailoredcontainment"policythePresidentapprovedattheNSCmeetingonNovember

13.

Partlybecausewehave

not

yetdefinedtheelements

of

this

approach,

we

are,

forthemoment,cedingtheinitiative

to

theNorthKoreans.

We

needtoclarify

our

basicprinciplesandstrategy.

Our

approachshouldfocuson

pressures

we

canbringtobear.Examples

of

suchpressures

are:

•a

UNSC

resolutionprohibitingNorthKoreanmissileexports(whichwouldstrengthenourhandinthenextuYemeni

SCUD"

case);•cutting

off

fundsNorthKoreareceivesfromabroad,suchfromastheChosenSoreninJapan;

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