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Weapons of Mass Deception

Charles R. Smith
Wednesday, July 16, 2003

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Lying About Nukes

However, if lying about weapons is still high on your list, then please note that there is a mountain of evidence that the Clinton administration lied about North Korean missile and nuclear weapons development. The White House lies were executed in order to cover up Clinton's foreign policy mistakes in Asia and his personal opposition to a national missile defense.

The Clinton effort to lie about the North Korean threat included pressuring the CIA to issue false and misleading data. For example, a declassified CIA report supplied by the Clinton administration to Congress estimated that North Korea would require 10-15 years to develop an ICBM capable of delivering a chemical, biological or nuclear warhead.

The 1998 Rumsfeld report, however, concluded that "There is evidence that North Korea is working hard on the Taep'o-dong 2 (TD-2) ballistic missile. The status of the system's development cannot be determined precisely. Nevertheless, the ballistic missile test infrastructure in North Korea is well developed. Once the system is assessed to be ready, a test flight could be conducted within six months of a decision to do so."

In addition, the Rumsfeld report concluded that "light-weight variations of the TD-2 could fly as far as 10,000 km, placing at risk western U.S. territory in an arc extending northwest from Phoenix, Arizona, to Madison, Wisconsin."

In August 1998, Clinton's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Shalikashvili went to Capitol Hill and testified under oath that North Korea did not have the capability to launch long-range missiles.

Two weeks later, North Korea fired its Tae Po Dong missile over Japan, dropping a simulated nuclear warhead off the U.S. coast.

Clinton continued to maintain the fiction that North Korea was not developing nuclear weapons, lying to America and our Asian allies right up to his last days in office.

"For several years, we have been working with our East Asian allies to improve relations with North Korea in a way that strengthens peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. We have made substantial progress, including the 1994 Agreed Framework, which froze North Korea's production of plutonium for nuclear weapons under ongoing international inspections," noted Clinton in a December 2000 press release.

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