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The ambiguous North Korean announcement came as a report in The Australian disclosed that up to 20 of North Korea's military and scientific elite, among them key nuclear specialists, had defected to the US and its allies through a smuggling operation involving the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. An American source confirmed to The Times last night that discussions with Nauru about helping North Korean defectors had taken place.

The defections started last October and were made possible with the help of 11 countries that agreed to provide consular protection to smuggle the targets from neighbouring China. Among those believed to be in a safe house in the West is the father of North Korea's nuclear programme, Kyong Won-ha. Debriefings of Mr Kyong are said to have given intelligence officials an unprecedented insight into North Korea's nuclear capabilities, particularly at the Reactor No 1 in the city of Yongbyon.

As the Honorable Billybob has pointed out, GW knew every card the Chia Head probably before they were dealt.

What I find to be disturbing is how the left wing, the Islamofacists and of course the so called right wing whackos ran with the NK Nuke Story together out of the starting gate. It was obvious that they wanted us to forget about Regime Change in Iraq and to focus on N Korea.

It is like this Troika of lies and miss information spreaders has the same think tanks and work together. The most recent example would be the cries of so called outrage about the so called looting of the Baghdad Museum.