North Korea Admits Nuclear Weapons Program

Fox News | 10/16/02 | Brytani

[Brytani]

Breaking News on Fox

Fox has just confirmed North Korea has admitted to the United States that they have a secret nuclear weapons program. This breaks a treaty signed with the Clinton Administration, in exchange for N. Korea not having nuclear weapons, the US agreed to build non-lethal nuclear plants for them.

Once again, Clinton's treaties turn out to be worth as much as his word.

[Mo1]

I can't disagree ..

Shoot .. my mind is racing and I can't find the right words .. this is big

[swheats]

I meant to ping you to 118 too.

[goldstategop]

F**k! And here Bubba was telling us all North Korea would never ever in a million years get weapons of mass murder. And the Bush Administration stupidly continued its predecessor's appeasement policies towards the Commies. Well there's a lesson in all, eh? Its like Sept. 11 only without a literal atom bomb going off in an American city. The North Koreans had us buffaloed over a cliff - and they ARE part of the Axis Of Evil.

[MJY1288]

What we are seeing here is leadership we haven't had in so long that it makes us scratch our heads and wonder what the hell is going on here. For 8 years we were told that unilateralist like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush are dangerous people who could unite the world against us. But what the limp wristed invertebrate liberals will never understand is, Evil can never be ignored, Not confronting it head on will only allow it to grow stronger, And appeasing it only delays the inevidable

[bonfire]

Well???

[seeker41]

Hello we're waiting for those insights. Hello....

[Mo1]

And here Bubba was telling us all North Korea would never ever in a million years get weapons of mass murder.

Oh hell most people never believed that ..

[Mo1]

I can share my insights if you would like.

Well don't leave me hanging .. do tell

[AmericanInTokyo]

AND, Jimmy Carter's new NOBEL MEDAL belongs in a toilet.

He went up to Pyongyang and sold out South Korea and Japan, currently within range of North Korean Taepodong and Nodong missiles. (I might also add that Anchorage, Alaska is also in range). If the nuke capabilities result in operational strike capability per long range missile, we may yet have to go to war over this one.

'Nobel Peace Prize' my frikkin arse.

[garbanzo]

The Clinton administration was a total disaster for the United States.

He's giving Woodrow Wilson a serious run for worst US President.

[Mixer]

We already knew they did.

But making it public is HUGE.

You mean to say...Them admitting it is HUGE.

As part of the Axis of Evil I am sure they will feel some presure from the world but I think if we try to engage in war it will be turned away. Just my thoughts.

[hinckley buzzard]

NSA already knew--who cares?

Hell. We all already knew--except the jerkwaters at State, apparently.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I also thought CIA (Clinton appointees) at the senior level also was skeptical regarding the level of north korean nuke development. gotta a lot of things to think about here.

sounds like a lot of this was underground development, outside the reach of our KH11 spy cam vision. I dont recall any NK defectors who mentioned their program had been ramped up, either.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Kyodo News tonight, in Japanese: 1) US says it cannot pursue betterment of relations with NK due to nuclear revelations; 2) NK says it cannot promise anything regarding nuke development anymore.

Further, another Japanese source says the in effect, the US North Korea NPT Agreement has collapsed.

[Mo1]

The source said Kelly also raised with North Korea evidence that North Korea may have a uranimum-enrichment program. The program, which the United States believes would only be used to develop a nuclear bomb, began under the Clinton administration, according to the official.

Speaking of Clinton .. where is the POS these days??

[plain talk]

Seems to me Dubya took some heat over that Axis of Evil remark by the libs because Clinton has supposedly fixed the situation with N. Korea.

[SoCal Pubbie]

" The officials said the material is being stored in underground bunkers kept off-limits to both the United States or the International Atomic Energy Agency. "

Couldn't it be possible to arrange for a tragic "meteor" strike to hit this very spot, obliterating everything within? Something smaller than a planet killer, mind you, but we all know what a threat these interplanetary visitors are.

[Mo1]

The source said Kelly also raised with North Korea evidence that North Korea may have a uranimum-enrichment program.

Isn't this what Iraq needs to complete their nuclear bomb??

[Shermy]

Rumsfeld raps North Korea for possessing 'nuclear weapons'

September 16, 2002

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday said Pyongyang has ''nuclear weapons'' in its military arsenal, citing alleged North Korean exports of missile technologies as an example at a news briefing at the Pentagon.

''We do know that they (North Korea) are one of the world's worst proliferators, particularly with ballistic missile technologies. We know they're a country that has been aggressively developing nuclear weapons and has nuclear weapons,'' Rumsfeld said.

The U.S. government, however, rectified his remarks later as they lacked clear evidences

. Rumsfeld met Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi before appearing at the Pentagon news briefing, but a Japanese official said North Korea did not come up for discussion.

The Kawaguchi-Rumsfeld meeting came on the eve of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Rumsfeld was responding to a question whether the U.S. would consider taking military action against North Korea and Iran, as Washington had done against Iraq.

U.S. President George W. Bush has branded the three countries as an ''axis of evil.''

Questioned on the status of U.S. policy toward the three countries, Rumsfeld said he sees a ''different situation'' in each of the three countries.

Rumsfeld also sought to distinguish North Korea from Iraq in terms of being a security threat to neighboring countries.

''We know they're a danger first and foremost to their own people, and second, they're a threat principally because of their proliferating activities, as opposed to being a threat to South Korea,'' Rumsfeld said.

The Central Intelligence Agency has said the U.S. intelligence community has judged in the mid-1990s that North Korea had produced one, possibly two, nuclear weapons.

[kabar]

What's up? The US is laying down a marker and letting the PRK know that we are aware of their nuclear weapons. Should the PRK give a nuclear weapon to Saddam or AQ, we will respond against them even if the fingerprints don't necessarily point in their direction. This is the danger of asymetrical warfare and using surrogates to attack a militarily superior adversary. How and against whom do you retaliate?