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Sinergy -> RE: North Korea nuke test draws condemnation (10/9/2006 9:38:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie
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In an article by Bill Gertz on 9/29/95: The Western United States could be within range of North Korea's longest-range missile armed with nuclear, chemical or biological warheads by the year 2000, according to U.S. and foreign intelligence assessments. Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, said new information indicates North Korea's Taepo Dong-2 missile, still under development, is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting U.S. cities and demonstrates the need for rapidly building a national missile defense.
In 1998 the Washington Post reported: "U.S. intelligence analysts believe about 15,000 North Koreans are at work on a vast, secret underground nuclear facility, a development administration officials say may represent a decision by North Korea to abandon a four-year-old agreement to freeze its nuclear weapons program,"
(8/18/98)
Clinton denied knowing about this on Larry King, yet Dick Morris later said the Clinton Administration was well aware.
NewsMax.com, on 2/11/03, reported: Ex-President Bill Clinton knew that North Korea had resumed its nuclear weapons program at least two years before he left the White House - long before he now claims - according to former Clinton White House insider Dick Morris.
On 2/12/03, the Washington Post reported: North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of reaching the western United States, intelligence officials said Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, the U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, raising the stakes in the standoff by sending the dispute to the Security Council.
In this same article, Ari Fleisher claimed that Bush believed diplomatic pressure could contain North Korea.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing before the House International Relations Committee, said the United States is pressing China to use its leverage with North Korea to persuade it to end its nuclear program. China is the main supplier of foreign assistance and energy aid to North Korea.
"We are doing everything we can to persuade the Chinese that the problem in North Korea is not just a problem between North and the United States. It is between North Korea and the region and North Korea and the world," he said.
We have known about this for over 10 years. It's scary stuff.
Here's an article written in January of 2003 about the discoveries in the Clinton Administration.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5368
For the record, we can point fingers until we're blue in the face, but the question is - what, if anything, will we do about it now? Personally I have little knowledge on the subject, and only did a quick search to see just how new this knews was to the U.S.
Here is a (hopefully) unbiased site from Wikipedia which lists a chronology of events, dating back to 1989. It's an interesting read, anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_nuclear_weapons_program
North Korea cant even build a bicycle that works. Does anybody really think that Kim Jong Il is going to fire one (1) nuclear missile that might or might not hit the target, might or might not explode, and might or might not vaporize Barstow, knowing that the US missile defense system would go "Fired from North Korea" and precipate their country being turned into a plate of radioactive glaze?
I think it is a lovely idea that Kim Jong Il is blowing up nukes underground, but I am extremely dubious he will ever do anything with it.
Additionally, China will bitch-slap him up one side or down the other if he provokes an occupying US presence (apart from the 45,000 US troops that function as the tripwire to prevent a North Korean invasion of South Korea, on the Asian continent. China stands to lose a huge proportion of their economy if North Korea pisses us off. Odds the Chinese are going to allow Kim Jong Il to do anything to put their trade in jeopardy are non-existent.
And China has plenty of nukes.
Sinergy
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