Posted on 06/20/2004 4:16:07 PM PDT by milestogo
9 Pakistani N-scientists might be in N Korea
SEOUL: Missing Pakistani nuclear scientists may be staying in North Korea helping develop its uranium-based nuclear weapons programme, reports said on Sunday.
Yonhap news agency, citing a report from the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) in Seoul, said North Korea might have achieved a higher level of technology for enriched uranium with the help of foreign scientists.
“Nine Pakistani nuclear scientists have been missing since they left their country six years ago and we cannot rule out the possibility that some of them are in North Korea,” KINU researcher Jeon Sung-Hun was quoted as saying.
North Korea’s highly enriched uranium programme was at an early stage in its development, he said. “However, we should be prepared to find that North Korea has received a level of technology and cooperation from Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus which surpasses general expectations,” he added.
The nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula flared in October 2002 when Washington accused North Korea of running a secret nuclear programme based on enriched uranium.
North Korea has acknowledged having a plutonium programme but denies that it is enriching uranium to make nuclear fuel. It has rejected US demands for a complete dismantling of its nuclear programmes without receiving rewards first. afp
Khan should have been executed ... these 9 know they have little to fear and much money to be made ...
Not good news.
As much as I dislike the Demobrats, I am getting really tired of the current Administration not telling it like it is. This business of pretending pseudo-enemies (like Pakistan and Saudi Arabi) are allies is but one example.
I dont know what N Korea is spending on develpoing Nukes, I do know it is a stupid move , they must realise that the first one they use will turn that country into an Inferno of Nuclear payback.
It is time for regime change in Pakistan.
9 Pakistani N-scientists might be in N Korea
......to learn how to 'drive' trains?
It could be ugly on a scale not seen since the worst of the Second World War.
So we now have Pakistanis, Iranians, and N. Koreans gather in N. Korea, working on building nukes.
It's right here in front of us but nobody is willing to look at it...
We're being confronted, right now, with the alternatives of conducting pre-emptive strikes against the personnel and facilities of these third-world ratholes that are developing nukes, or ending up with (at best) a nuclear exchange between bug countries somewhere, or (at worst) one of their infernal machines getting smuggled into the U.S. and detonated here.
After one goes off, of course, there will be endless wails of "We could have prevented this if [fill in name of President here] had had the courage to act", etc., blah blah... but RIGHT NOW is when we are able to take advantage of the opportunity of averting disaster. RIGHT NOW. We are living RIGHT NOW in the time to which all the howling pundits of the future will point and self-righteously waggle their fingers.
Any bets on whether we'll just sit here and wait for the inevitable, because it's easier and more politically "Safe" in the short term to just sit and wait for an event that will take hundreds of thousands of lives, than it is to bomb North Korea's and Iran's (and maybe Pakistan's) nuclear facilities and assassinate a few rogue scientists and take the resulting arrogant condescending condemnation from Dan Rather?
They can keep the nukes. They will still starve regardless. I cannot imagine that giving a nuke to a terrorist regime that might explode it in the US will change NK's situation.
The admisitration is waiting them out. After Jan 20th, watch the fire works.
Pakistan helped Osama, Iraq didn't: 9/11 panel http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/742828.cms
Bush rewards Pak despite 9/11 link http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/744139.cms
"No new wars until after the election." - Stated policy of the Bush administration.
Okay, okay. Wouldn't want to fry Dan Rather's *other* braincell by making him have to commit treason against two wars at once...
But still, if it's not the eleventh hour, it's 5 minutes to midnight. Think about buying stock in companies that make handheld radiation monitors.
I used to be confident of that result, but I am no longer certain of that...sadly. [And if I am not certain, neither is the enemy]. We are in danger...from ourselves.
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