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Bribing the Axis of Evil: Do we really want to give North Korea nuclear reactors?
Wall St Journal ^
| 6-24-02
Posted on 06/24/2002 6:52:01 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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North Korea is one step closer to getting two light-water reactors that will give it the capacity to make more nuclear bombs. That much is clear from a glowing State Department statement issued last week after U.S. talks with Japanese and South Korean diplomats in San Francisco.
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posted on
06/24/2002 6:52:02 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
It was a Clinton deal. Why the Bush Administration is pushing forward with it is beyond me. And Communists are the last people on earth who can be seduced with a bribe and the North Korean Commies make the Soviets look moderate in comparison.
To: SJackson
And so the Bush doctrine continues to erode.
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posted on
06/24/2002 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
Kerberos
To: SJackson
This deal was cooked up at the State Department, an outfit with a worse track record than the CIA.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Colon Bowell apparently hasn't heard North Korea is a member of the Axis of Evil yet. Go figure.
To: Registered
Ping. (I can't find your graphic for this.)
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posted on
06/24/2002 7:43:30 AM PDT
by
toenail
To: toenail; All
To: Registered
Thanks.
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posted on
06/24/2002 9:16:01 AM PDT
by
toenail
To: SJackson
But even the eager-to-talk diplomats couldn't ignore Pyongyang's refusal to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspection. That was a condition of the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Clinton-era attempt to bribe the North into ending its nuclear weapons program by the offer of the two light-water reactors. Instead, the diplomats skated over this fundamental requirement, referring simply to the need for "North Korea to move forward with steps needed to begin full cooperation" on the issue. Our government seems to be full of suicidal wimps
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posted on
06/24/2002 9:27:21 AM PDT
by
niki
To: niki
Suicidal wussies is more like it.
To: SJackson
Sure, why not? whats another shot in the foot?
To: secretagent
Continuing with the reactor deal does not constitute a coherent U.S. strategy for dealing with North Korea, especially now that we've experienced the horrors of terrorism first hand. It isn't just a matter of giving a rogue state the means to make more nuclear weapons, though it would certainly do that. It's also about transferring nuclear expertise to Pyongyang on licensing, safety and operational matters. Since September 11 such information has been so sensitive that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has restricted public access. The fear is that knowledge of how to build nuclear reactors could help terrorists find a way to attack them. So why does the State Department want to share information too dangerous to show freely to the U.S. public with an unstable regime that already sells missiles to anyone who asks?
Whoa ! This needs to stop. Thanks for the heads up.
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