Dr AQ Khan provided centrifuges to N. Korea

Japanese news agency Kyodo ^ | August 25, 2005 | staff writer

[gandalftb]

ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: President General Pervez Musharraf has denied the allegations that transfers of centrifuge designs to N Korea by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan helped N Korea in acquiring nuclear weapons.

The president confirmed that Dr Khan provided centrifuge machines and their designs to N Korea, but said these transfers did not help North Korea acquire a nuclear weapons capability.

“So, if N Korea has made a bomb...Dr. A.Q. Khan’s part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade." said Musharraf. Asked to comment on reports that Mr. Khan gave about 20 centrifuges to North Korea, Gen Musharraf said: “Yes, he passed centrifuges — parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number.” He said it was immaterial whether Mr Khan visited North Korea 10, 20 or even 30 times since he could provide only limited help or information. "We got some artillery pieces from North Korea, once upon a time, many years ago. So, this was the relationship with North Korea.” Gen Musharraf also confirmed that Mr Khan made three trips to Mali between 1998, 2000, to meet Libyan officials interested in procuring uranium technology from Pakistan.

The president said that like all the other nuclear powers, Pakistan bought from the nuclear underground market for its program. "Even the United States and Soviet Union developed their nuclear programs “through underground means” by getting nuclear technology from the black market, from Germans and by covertly getting information about each others’ programs."

[gandalftb]

No big deal, huh? Showed them how to make weapons grade uranium and then gave them the centrifuges. This is lunacy!!!! We must have a foreign policy doctrine like the Monroe doctrine that bans nuclear proliferation by anyone else upon pain of immediate military intervention by us if no one else. We will pay the price for this kind of military madness.

[HAL9000]

We must have a foreign policy doctrine like the Monroe doctrine that bans nuclear proliferation by anyone else upon pain of immediate military intervention by us if no one else.

The Bush Doctrine is pretty close to that, but it may not be immediate.

[Joe Boucher]

Kahn meanwhile is a national hero in the country that is our ally pakistan.
This international criminal should be assasinated not held as a hero.

[endthematrix]

US and UN policy now is to have the IAEA have monitoring authority and the developed Western civilization will transfer that technology to the anti-US Axis Powers...it's codenamed nuclear fuel cycle.

[endthematrix]

"Even the United States and Soviet Union developed their nuclear programs “through underground means” by getting nuclear technology from the black market, from Germans and by covertly getting information about each others’ programs."

General, you violated the NPT.