Be Afraid, Very Afraid (North Korea Has Nukes, Long-range Missles)

National Review Online ^ | Mar 14, 2002 | Rich Lowry

[My Identity]

Bush isn't creating a threatening international environment, he's reacting to one.

Duh!

[putupon]

Didn't the Clintons work out a deal where N. Korea agreed not to make nukes?

[My Identity]

Didn't the Clintons work out a deal where N. Korea agreed not to make nukes?

I think it would be more accurate to say that Clinton worked out a deal where North Korea wouldn't bother him while he was in office.

[DinkyDau]

It was for the children.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The deal was worked out while the Clintons & the DNC were swapping spit with the Red Chinese.

[Digger]

Thak you again, Trent "notta" Lott for allowing Bubba to skate. And a big thanks to the "Two-party Cartel". You, GW are included for the same reasons.

[slimer]

the North Korean "multiple-stage Taepo Dong-2, which is capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear-weapon-sized payload, may be ready for flight testing."

Feeling secure yet?

What me worry? As soon as they launch the first missle they will be on the receiving end of total obliteration.

[RCW2001]

Thursday March 14, 4:31 PM

North Korea threatends to review all agreements with US

North Korea threatened to review all agreements with the United States over a reported US nuclear strategy which targets seven countries -- including the communist state -- for possible attacks.

The North's foreign ministry warned in a statement late Wednesday that the Stalinist country would have "no option but to take a substantial countermeasure" against the United States.

"We are compelled to examine all the agreements with the United States in case the US plan for a nuclear attack on the DPRK (North Korea) turns out to be true," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

According to leaks to the US media, the US Defense Department's Nuclear Policy Review calls for a shift away from the Cold War posture of using the US nuclear arsenal to deter a nuclear strike from the former Soviet Union.

It sees China, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Russia and Syria as potential targets for US nuclear strikes, according to the Los Angeles Times report.

US officials have tried to allay international fears saying the report merely listed options at the disposal of US authorities.

The North slammed the reported US strategy as "a daydream of the reckless persons who do not hesitate to stifle" the communist country by using nuclear weapons.

In a separate statement aired by by state radio stations, the North's foreign ministry inisted that Pyongyang had "faithfully" implemented agreements signed with Washington in 1993 and 1994.

The Cold War enemies issued a joint statement in 1993 to defuse a nuclear crisis triggered by the North's withdrawl from an international nuclear safeguard accord.

In 1994, they signed a landmark agreement under which the North froze its suspected nuclear weapons program. In return, the United States pledged diplomatic and economic incentives.

The 1994 Agreed Framework set the stage for a string of rapprochemment talks between North Korea and the United States.

But the North has threatened to end the 1994 aggreement slamming what it calls a "hostile" policy of US President George W. Bush. It has also rejected Bush's demand for a full inspection of North Korean nuclear facilities.

The North has denounced the United States for delaying a 4.6-billion-dollar project to build two nuclear energy reactors that produce less weapons-grade plutonium.

The reactor project was due to be completed by 2003, but delays have pushed back the finish until at least 2008.

US officials have warned that the construction might suffer further delays if the North refuses to allow checks on its nuclear activities.

The Korean peninsula remains the world's last Cold War frontier after its division into the pro-Western South and the Stalinist North in 1945.

The South is home to some 37,000 US troops. The US has maintained a presence there since the 1950-53 Korean War to deter any attack from the North.

[HELLRAISER II]

Yes they did, do you recall how many millions of dollars we put in that bottomless hole?

[Aggie Mama]

bttt

[My Identity]

do you recall how many millions of dollars we put in that bottomless hole?

SIX BILLION, I believe was the target number.
Serious nutcases with serious weapons, and that POC Bill tried to bribe them.

[HELLRAISER II]

Six Billion unF**king believeable, thanks Slick Willie. What do you think his cut was?

[father_elijah]

So what qualifies as a "Red Alert" then, Gov. Ridge? This is certainly a Red Alert at several different levels.

[JimSEA]

The "Great Leader" is willingly starving his people and there is nothing to indicate that he thinks about deterance in any other terms than personal survival. However, he may wait a while for the left to defeat or compromise the Bush administration befor acting. All the same, you gotta be a little nervious if you live in Tokyo given the history of Japan and Korea. NK may hate us but they really are fixated on the Japanese.

[My Identity]

The U.S. House Policy Committee study conducted in 2000 found that under the Clinton-Gore administration, North Korea became the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region."

"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion," the study said.

[ElkGroveDan]

...as I pointed out elsewhere, Red Alert is when the Klingons charge their forward phaser banks.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes, NK hates the Japanese. But don't forget, we virtually obliterated every NK city worth mentioning with B-29's (flying from our bases in Japan) during the Korean War. They still nurse this old score.

[b4its2late]

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