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

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

[My Identity]

Donald Rumsfeld didn't seem to think that this "Agreed Framework" was such a bad deal

Apparently you didn't read the history. The ABB nukes are light water reactors which are considered safer by the U.S. The problem is with NK's old heavy water reactor.

The problem with the Carter/Clinton agreement is that it only postponed the day of reckoning. In essence, the KorComms didn't have to do anything but sit tight for several years and they got two light water reactors. They did not have to shut down their old reactor, but only had to say that they did. Clinton bought them off for $6Bil and solved no U.S. problm but his own.

Pardon me, but your comments sound like hysterical world conspiracy tin-foil comments.

[rightwing2]

Apparently you didn't read the history. The ABB nukes are light water reactors which are considered safer by the U.S. The problem is with NK's old heavy water reactor. The problem with the Carter/Clinton agreement is that it only postponed the day of reckoning. In essence, the KorComms didn't have to do anything but sit tight for several years and they got two light water reactors. They did not have to shut down their old reactor, but only had to say that they did. Clinton bought them off for $6Bil and solved no U.S. problm but his own.

Actually, the House Republican Policy Caucus quoted expert testimony that said the light water reactors we were supposed to build them would enable the DPRK to build some 60 nukes per year using Plutonium 238 which would have been a pretty sad state of affairs for the US. Fortunately, after some vacillitation, it looks like Bush is not going to let the Japs/ROK build them and that the Russians will likely end up building a new nuclear reactor for the North Koreans instead.

[Icthus]

Be very, very afraid!

[Icthus]

Be VERY afraid!

[AmericanInTokyo]

The USFJ already have nukes deployed in Japan, despite what the treaty and Japanese Constitution says. everyone knows this, looks the otherway, and further, not a few people know right where they are.

[RightWhale]

. This island has already experienced the A-bomb

I was 2 years old then. My uncle flew over Hiroshima the day after, good view from the tailgun position. He doesn't talk much about it, except to say the devastation was immense. Considering that few such bombs are that small these days, I hope that cooler heads prevail and they never get used again.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My challenge North Korea is that they don't have the guts to aim a missle at Berkley. Go ahead, I dare you.

[Pistias]

3. Hot subs. And I don't mean from Quizno's.

[CyberAnt]

I am not afraid of N. Korea. I don't care how many nukes they have. They don't have the will to use them. All they have is the willingness to threaten - that's it!

[weikel]

We have enough to blow North Korea to kingdom come we need a missle defense.

[mafree]

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[ChaseR]

bttt

[LarryLied]

Some won't pay attention until we get hit by one.

[ChaseR]

"Some won't pay attention until we get hit by one."

Exactly.