The Heritage Foundation Article RatingAmerica's North Korea Policy: Adding Lanes to the Road | The Heritage Foundation
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "The Bush engagement also resulted in the abandonment of important principles, including enforcement of international law and attaining sufficient verification measures." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The Department of State cites arbitrary imprisonment, killings, torture, forced abortions, absence of religious freedom, and medical experimentation on prisoners.[3] Pyongyang operates an extensive gulag system for as many as 200,000 political prisoners." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Kim Jong-il will be emboldened by perceptions that Washington does not have a military option due to Seoul's proximity to the DMZ, the overextension of U.S. military forces, and a potential face-off with Iran." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Although there might be a perception of a major shift in U.S. policy, President Obama will maintain much of the engagement strategy of the final two years of the Bush Administration." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Of all the foreign policy challenges that Barack Obama inherited from George W. Bush, North Korea may prove the most intractable." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "President Obama has asserted the need for sustained, direct, and aggressive diplomacy with North Korea." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Perceptions held by many South Koreans -- and many in American academic circles -- that President Obama would take a dramatically different approach toward Pyongyang, including an embrace of direct summit diplomacy, raised unrealistic expectations for a sea change in the U.S. strategy for North Korean denuclearization." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "However direct he makes his policy, President Obama will face the same constraints in achieving tangible progress with North Korea as his predecessors experienced." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "As President Obama develops his approach to North Korea, the U.S. should:Expanding Policy Beyond the Six-Party Talks" | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "During his confirmation hearing, nominated Deputy Secretary of Defense William Ly called Pyongyang a continuing threat, while during her hearing, nominated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed the U.S. would continue to demand the complete and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Although President Obama may be more willing than was President Bush to engage in senior-level diplomatic engagement, including a potential summit with Kim Jong-il, it is unlikely that such tactical changes will achieve verifiable North Korean denuclearization." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "As President Obama assembles his foreign-policy making team and translates vague campaign pronouncements to specific policy recommendations, he should look to history for guidance." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Despite welcoming Barack Obama's election, North Korea resorted to brinksmanship tactics after indications that the new U.S. Administration would not be as conciliatory as Pyongyang had anticipated." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
42% : The Bush engagement also resulted in the abandonment of important principles, including enforcement of international law and attaining sufficient verification measures.41% : The Department of State cites arbitrary imprisonment, killings, torture, forced abortions, absence of religious freedom, and medical experimentation on prisoners.[3] Pyongyang operates an extensive gulag system for as many as 200,000 political prisoners.
37% : Kim Jong-il will be emboldened by perceptions that Washington does not have a military option due to Seoul's proximity to the DMZ, the overextension of U.S. military forces, and a potential face-off with Iran.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.