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A Scary Thought: Nuclear material is being trucked out of Yongbyon. Delay is not an option.
Wall St Journal ^ | February 6, 2003 | William J. Perry, Ashton B. Carter and John M. Shalikashvili

Posted on 02/06/2003 5:06:43 AM PST by SJackson

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

While the world prepares to disarm Iraq of chemical and biological arms, by force if necessary, it does nothing as a potentially larger disaster unfolds in North Korea -- loose nukes.

News reports indicate that North Korea has begun to move fuel rods containing six bombs' worth of plutonium from its nuclear facility at Yongbyon, where it also announced yesterday it is restarting its reactor. For eight years, since 1994, that plutonium has been stored at Yongbyon where it could be seen by on-site inspectors and, if necessary, entombed by an air strike of precision bombs. Now it is being trucked away, perhaps to one of North Korea's many caves, where it will be difficult to find or destroy.


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Advice from the guys who watched it happen.
1 posted on 02/06/2003 5:06:43 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson
Advice from the guys who ENCOURAGED thier BOSS to ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN.
2 posted on 02/06/2003 5:12:52 AM PST by Neets (French=Oui-nees)
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To: Neets
You can't solve a problem with the same minds that created it.
3 posted on 02/06/2003 5:49:55 AM PST by RecentConvert
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To: SJackson
There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of this advice.

a) The US has to act immediately with precision bombs, before the fuel rods are taken away.

b) The US has to placate an appeasement-minded South Korean government and get them on our side before it acts.

Well, which is it?
4 posted on 02/06/2003 6:02:48 AM PST by Cicero
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To: Neets
Advice from the guys who ENCOURAGED thier BOSS to ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN.

My advice to these clowns is STFU and let the adults handle it.

5 posted on 02/06/2003 6:13:57 AM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore)
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To: SJackson
Where were these clowns in '94 before North Korea had nukes? The Clintonians are trying to pull a reprise of the Bobby Kennedy-the-folks-who-started-the-war-reposition-themselves-as-its-leading-critics-when-it-becomes-unpopular schtick. Won't work. The previous policy was made in Bill's Oval Office. We should use it to hang Bill & Hitlery.
6 posted on 02/06/2003 6:35:33 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: SJackson
<< Advice from the guys who watched it happen. >>

Advice?

Hows about we call a spade a bloody shovel?

And call this crap what it is, too:

Hypocracy from the treasonous co-serial-rapist sons of bitches who CAUSED it to happen.
7 posted on 02/06/2003 6:37:41 AM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
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To: Brian Allen
I thought the new gov of New Mexico solved this problem.

Where is the UN?

Where is Russia?

8 posted on 02/06/2003 6:42:45 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Man of the Right
Where were these clowns in '94 before North Korea had nukes?

Creating a kinder, gentler, more tolerant military. That was the problem as they saw it.

9 posted on 02/06/2003 6:57:30 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson
While we are stomping Iraq flat, we need to pop N. Korea also. While we're at it...let the Saudis know that they are not that far dawn the list.

tararaBOOMdeyea
letsdropaNUKEtoday
10 posted on 02/06/2003 7:10:41 AM PST by TheJollyRoger (George W. Bush for president in 2004....AGAIN!)
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To: Just mythoughts
I wonder if the label of "axis" isn't taking on more meaning before our eyes?
11 posted on 02/06/2003 7:50:09 AM PST by mikhailovich
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To: mikhailovich
It sure seems to be unfolding that way. Those stated "axis" do not exist in a vaccum, so the words had to be directed to a much wider audience.

The reaction of the nations to the usage of the term certainly are exposing themselves. Showing who is for us and who is against us.
12 posted on 02/06/2003 8:36:23 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Dark Wing
ping
13 posted on 02/06/2003 10:10:47 AM PST by Thud
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To: SJackson
Are any of the houses Jimmy Carter built still standing? I bet, like everything else he has done, they are real "masterpieces".
14 posted on 02/06/2003 10:14:21 AM PST by Spruce
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To: Just mythoughts
<< I thought the new gov of New Mexico solved this problem. >> The treasonous, lying, looting, thieving, mass-murdering, co-serial-rapist new gov of New Mexico is OF the problem;

<< Where is the UN? >>

The un is comprised of the lying, looting, mass-murdering gummints of such shitholes as Iraq, france, canada, Libya, germany and north korea;

<< Where is Russia? >>

At the un.
15 posted on 02/06/2003 10:13:33 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
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