McCain vehemently attacked Senator Obama for his stance on meeting with the leaders of our greatest enemies, among which North Korea, and emphasized his naivety in foreign policy. McCain and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal Asia that said, “We must never squander the trust of our allies and the respect for our highest office by promising that the president will embark on an open-ended, unconditional personal negotiation with a dictator responsible for running an international criminal enterprise, a covert nuclear weapons program and a massive system of gulags,” Mr. McCain and Mr. Lieberman said in the article.

McCain’s willingness to support the six-party negotiations and diplomatic engagement between the U.S., North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia, is well recorded.

Later this afternoon, Bush joins McCain for a closed-door fundraiser in Phoenix. Mr. Bush is renowned as a prodigious fund-raiser for his party, and McCain needs all the help he can get.

MCCAIN AND NORTH KOREA
By Elizabeth Bumiller (NYTimes 5/27/08)
Abstract by Johana Nadler
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