11/14/22 Tim Shorrock: The Tension with North Korea is America’s Fault

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Scott talks with Tim Shorrock about the build-up to today’s tension with North Korea. Shorrock takes us back to the 1990s when the U.S. and North Korean governments were making serious headway in negotiating a formal end to the Korean war. At the time, the North Korean nuclear program was nonexistent. By the end of the decade, there were even serious talks taking place about ending the entire missile program. Then George W. Bush came in and, with the help of John Bolton, ruined everything. Scott and Shorrock talk about what went wrong, how it was almost fixed during the Trump administration and how things spiraled back out of control—again thanks largely to John Bolton. Discussed on the show: The Shorrock Files — Patreon “U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney” (The Intercept) Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing and a regular contributor to The Nation and the Korea Center for Investigative Reporting. Follow him on Twitter @TimothyS. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	All right to you guys on the line I got Shorock and you know he's a hell of a great journalist he wrote the book
1:06.3	Spies for hire the secret world of intelligence outsourcing and he's a real expert on Korea, rights for the nation and things like that and he's got a
1:16.2	brand new project called the Shorock files and it's at pat Patreon.com.
1:25.0	Welcome back to the show Tim. How are you?
1:27.0	I'm doing well. Thank you.
1:29.0	It's been a little while.
1:30.0	It's been a while.
1:32.0	You're in my book. I got your book. Yeah. Yeah, hotter than the sun. Did I send you one? You did. Yes. Okay, good. Sorry, I got what Biden's got.
1:42.6	I can remember everything I read, but I can't remember anything else.
1:45.7	Listen, so, and it's a really good interview too.
1:49.5	It's a great summary of kind of an end cap on what Trump tried and failed to do with North
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