Posted on 02/06/2003 8:31:39 AM PST by tlrugit
China Reform Monitor No. 482, January 27, 2003 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.
December 17, 2002
U.S. intelligence officials found that North Korea purchased 20 tons of a key chemical used to extract material for nuclear bombs from spent nuclear fuel, reports Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. Responding to the reports based on sensitive intelligence, experts believe the Tributyl Phosphate, known as TBP, will be used by North Korea for the regime's plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. "The fact that North Korea is importing TBP right now is rather ominous," said Gary Milholin, director of the private Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. "It's evident that North Korea plans to extract more plutonium."
U.S. security officials say the transfer of the chemical, in itself, is an indication that the Chinese government - contrary to public statements - is unwilling to support U.S. efforts to end the North Korean nuclear weapons program. Senior officials also say that Chinese companies continue to export nuclear, chemical and biological weapons materials and missile components, despite claims by the Chinese of curbing exports to rogue states or unstable regimes.
January 16
In an editorial titled, "China Props up an Evil Regime," Asian Wall Street Journal deputy editor Danny Gittings states, "China is the one country most reluctant to dislodge Kim Jong-il. For all the giveaways in Seoul's 'sunshine policy,' the amount of aid that flows from South Korea is still only a fraction of the support Beijing provides in propping up its faltering communist neighbor."
January 22
Chinese authorities are continuing a crackdown on North Korean refugees that has resulted in thousands of destitute of people being returned to the brutal Pyongyang regime, reports the Washington Post. China's border region campaign signifies Beijing's policy of keeping the North Korean regime in power and preventing a massive refugee flow. Beijing's actions have generated criticism from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and various humanitarian agencies, which argue that returning refugees are met with execution, prison, torture and slave-condition detention in government forced-labor camps. Famine has ravished the North Korean population since 1996, with an estimated death toll of over 2 million people, due to disastrous Stalinist economic policies.
The Washington Times reveals that in a new report to the U.S. Congress, the CIA stated, "North Korea has continued procurement of raw materials and components for its ballistic missile programs. especially through North Korean firms based in China." The Times adds, senior Chinese military leaders continue to have close ties to Pyongyang. Analysts say the military-to-military tie is critical to the oppressive regime's survival.
January 23
The official China News Service reported a People's Liberation Army [PLA] war game being conducted near North Korea simulating "conditions similar to real war," reports the Associated Press. The exercise was launched as North Korea and the United States remain mired in a diplomatic stalemate over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The week-long war game involved troops of the Shenyang Military Zone, over a 1,000 kilometer area, practicing "highly difficult tasks," including anti-aircraft attacks and camouflaging military equipment in "extremely cold weather."
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Why isn't this being taken up in the General Assembly instead of all that crap about Israel ?
How many of the weapons found in Afghanistan were discovered to have been supplied to the Toilet heads by the Chinese....MANY!
"Clinton Deal Gave N. Korea 100-Nuke-Per-Year Capacity"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/19/114657
Like I said at last years SOTU address, Bush missed one country in the axis of evil.
But don't tell Henry Kissinger or Al Haig. It wouldn't matter anyway as long as their China paid paychecks keep rolling in. And, of course - it matters nothing to the American Chinese Agents, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
We must go into Iraq with EWO - eyes wide open - to the elephant behind the curtain - Communist China. If they "behave" - no problemo. However, big problemo - they have NOT been behaving and they WANT us to fail in order that their Manchurian Candidate II can take power here......the one on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
FREE TRADE with China is a religion of peace.
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