[MadIvan]

This "useless" reactor was the product of the agreement that Clinton made. OK, so what did Clinton know about this and when did he know it? Either he is a traitor or a hopeless incompetent, or both.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Happygal]

Never trust anyone who will eat the family pet :-)

[Nitro]

Pyongyang may have A-bomb in 30 days

Then they should have a mushroom cloud in 29...

courtesy of Uncle Sam!!

[Joe Boucher]

Clinton and Carter are responsible for this mess.
NOw we need to take out the reactor before it can produce
enough fuel to power nukes. Enough of bribing the North,
time to stand up to the bully. Time to kick some Morth Korean booty.

[Gorzaloon]

RESTARTING its nuclear reactor could enable North Korea to produce nuclear weapons in as little as 30 days, according to one of Britain’s leading nuclear experts.

I am disgusted with these tabloids, and I wish the Crown would start furnishing them with rabies shots. The situation is bad enough without this. Britain has a good nuclear industry and plenty of real experts, and I fail to see what the benefit is to going pub-crawling in order to find a twit like this.

Presupposing that Korea has the infrastructure in place, seperating plutonium, refining, processing, pressing and sintering the material and machining bomb elements and building triggers is something I doubt the US or Britain could turn around in thirty days.

Anything to sell papers. Capitalizing with trash journaism on an issue as serious as this one is borders on being sick.

[chuknospam]

I suspect they already have the bomb completed, they just need the Plutonium to finish it.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Looks like we may need to make a brief pit stop in North Korea, on the way to Iraq.

[hchutch]

We gotta take those reactors out. We simply have to.

Then, the diplomats at State will have to buy enough time to get the only platforms capable of taking out Yongbyong back into active service:

[LibWhacker]

Strike first. If they respond by unleashing an artillery barrage on Seoul, nuke 'em unmercifully. We should've listened to the Founding Fathers about foreign entanglements.

[Stirner]

"This "useless" reactor was the product of the agreement that Clinton made."

I thought that I read that this particular (plutonium breeder) reactor was a Russian gift from back before the USSR went out of business. Part of Clinton's deal was that we would build them 2 (much less useful for weapons)light water reactors in exchange for shutting down this reactor. I'm not sure whether we ever did build them. I'm far from a Clinton fan, but his agreement was aimed at getting rid of this reactor. The story the past few days is he had a plan to blow it up if necessary. Wonder what his supporters will say if the current President does just that? I hope we find out (although I expect they will howl in criticism).

[Grut]

Either he is a traitor or a hopeless incompetent, or both.

But, wouldn't the combination of hopeless incompetence with treason be good? ;^)

[muir_redwoods]

I bet we can get one there in 30 minutes if we tried!!

[lafayette76]

What is this? British Intelligence trying to start WW III? A few facts are missing from this article:

1. American "anything-for-a-buck" companies were trying to sell nuclear equipment to the North Koreans as recently as a year ago.

2. North Korea is responding to an oil embargo by the west.

3. If China is behind all this, why are Chinese prison-labor products flooding into American stores?

Yes, North Korea is a horribly backwards, sick Stalinist nation, but people had better get their facts straight before missiles start flying all over Asia.

[Redcloak]

Nuke 'em in 29 days. Problem solved.