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To: nwctwx

I've seen a few posts regarding the distraction and disinformation campaign that is to be carried out.
Just a suggestion to find clues as to the real threat being hidden from view.


4,158 posted on 11/17/2004 7:26:25 PM PST by Wizski (Often wrong, plan accordingly...)
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Threat of 'nukes to spare' in N Korea
Peter Alford, Tokyo correspondent
November 18, 2004
NORTH Korea has built enough nuclear weapons to sell some of them to other rogue states or terrorist groups and still retain enough to deter attacks on its territory.

That must be the new baseline assumption for the US and other countries trying to disarm the communist state, according to International Crisis Group president and former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans.

"It's happened in the last two years," Mr Evans told The Australian from Seoul. "Since we lost track of the spent fuel rods at Yongbyong (nuclear plant), we have to assume they have reprocessed enough plutonium to make six to eight weapons."

A new ICG report says the strong likelihood that North Korea has as many as 10 nuclear bombs -- US intelligence assumes two weapons existed before a 1994 agreement to freeze plutonium production -- makes the task of dismantling the rogue program increasingly urgent.

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While six-party talks have continued with results in Beijing, North Korea has probably reprocessed its (8000) fuel rods and may have turned the plutonium into weapons," the report says.

"It almost certainly has enough bombs to deter an attack and still have some to sell to other states or even terrorist groups."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11418369%5E2703,00.html


4,162 posted on 11/17/2004 7:45:05 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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To: Wizski

There has been some talk (over the Summer) of a disinformation campaign. I often wonder if the real threat is right in front of our eyes while people are trying to ignore it.


4,164 posted on 11/17/2004 7:53:34 PM PST by nwctwx
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