Bill Clinton: urges US to make a deal

Former US President Bill Clinton, describing bombs as North Korea’s only cash crop, yesterday said it was urgent for Washington to reach a deal with Pyongyang before poverty drove it to sell a nuclear weapon.

Mr Clinton said the US should be prepared to sign a non-aggression pact with the communist nation if it abandoned all its atomic programs.

“North Korea has greater capacity to produce atomic weapons than Iraq does, and less capacity to feed itself than Iraq does. So for the North Koreans, their ‘cash crops’, if you will, are missiles and bombs,” Clinton said.