Posted on 10/07/2006 10:00:38 PM PDT by FairOpinion
North Korea ratcheted up the tension several notches last week by announcing its intention to conduct a nuclear test. It appears the North Korea-Iran tag team is giving fits to the United States and adding to the worry that the two nations are coordinating strategies to keep us off balance.
Shortly after North Korea launched its missiles last July, intelligence appeared alleging that Iranians observed the launches as guests. Israeli intelligence sources believe that North Korea sold Iran 18 intermediate-range missiles.
Countries opposing the U.S. routinely embrace each other as a matter of necessity. Two years ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency learned that North Korea sold uranium to Libya, and rumors concerning large numbers of North Koreans employed on weapons related programs in Iran circulated as least three years ago but remained largely unnoticed.
We should expect North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Myanmar, China and several others to strike deals that directly conflict with U.S. interests in the next few years.
Our current strategy has clearly failed, and with time as its ally, North Korea clearly won the race toward the nuclear club, eventually producing enough plutonium to create nuclear weapons despite President Clinton's 1993 statement that "North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb."
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Although I disagree with the article's conclusion that we need to engage N. Korea in direct talks.
The Clinton admin did that and now we are seeing the results.
When George Bush in 2001 named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the "Axis of Evil" he was stating there already was an alliance between these three and they were up to no good.
Bush knew what he was talking about when he included Iran and N. Korea as part of the axis of evil.
I wonder what the liberals, who are trying to get control of congress would do?
W.W.L.D What would liberals do ? That would be a great T-shirt, bumper sticker.
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