Everyone's Got an Opinion on North Korea
That includes Senator Hillary Clinton.
And naturally, I'd expect her to tout her husband's "accomplishment" in this regard, the now infamous 1994 "Agreed Framework":
There is a precedent for this. According to former defense secretary William J. Perry (in a 1999 book) it was the threat of U.N. sanctions that led to negotiations concluding in the Agreed Framework, which froze the North Korean plutonium-based nuclear program for nine years.The only problem is that the Agreed Framework was badly flawed. It offered carrots to North Korea (a light water reactor and 500,000 tons of heavy oil annually) in return for a North Korean agreement to curb nuclear development that was in no way "complete, verifiable and irreversible." It is now clear that North Korea started to cheat on the agreement almost immediately by taking an alternate route (HEU, or highly-enriched uranium) to build nuclear weapons.
If Levin and Clinton are calling for an Agreed Framework 2, they are setting up America's North Korean policy for a failure... again.