Posted on 06/02/2005 9:01:34 AM PDT by Barlow Hearst
(via North KoreaZone)
The United States and its allies have intercepted two deliveries of materials useful in making nuclear and chemical weapons by North Korea, the State Department said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher made the disclosure in remarks to reporters, citing 11 successful efforts in the past nine months by the United States and its allies in an anti-proliferation campaign, called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
`I have cited two cases involving North Korea. I¡¯ve cited several cases involving countries of proliferation concern, including Iran,¡¯¡¯ Boucher said in a press briefing.
``In addition, we worked to impede the progress of North Korean weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, for example, bilateral cooperation with several governments prevented North Korea from receiving materials used in making chemical weapons and cooperation with another country blocked the transfer to North Korea of a material useful in its nuclear programs,¡¯¡¯ he said.
The disclosure comes amid signs that the United States is toughening its stance toward North Korea which remains unmoved in its refusal to rejoin stalled six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons program.
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Can't be - Howard Dean told me that we're leaving North Korea alone. This sounds like a quarrantine, an Act of War.
Are the B-52s holding at their failsafe points, Mandrake ?
Close, they and a few B-2s, are standing by at Anderson AFB on Guam.
Seems appropriate--the state of war has persisted since N Kor invaded S Kor.
where were the ships going, HmmmMMMMMM?
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