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North Korea's nuclear blackmail continues with its agreement to let a U.S. delegation visit next week - possibly to peek inside the Yongbyon atom complex, the likely locus of the country's weapons program. The group is sure to return with word that, yes, indeed, strongman Kim Jong Il is building himself a nice arsenal. The wily and duplicitous dictator is staging the show-and-tell as the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea and Japan prepare to press his rogue regime to abandon its nuclear capabilities in historic six-party negotiations. The more nukes he has, on hand or in the making, the more...

Dec. 23, 2003 Iran warns Israel against striking nuclear reactor By JPOST.COM STAFF Image of Iran's nuclear installations. Photo: AP Iranian leaders warned Israel on Monday against an attack on the Muslim country's nuclear reactor, following remarks by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz last week, according to which Israel would not allow Iran to achieve nuclear capability. "He made a damn mistake," Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said Monday Mofaz's statements the day before to the effect that Israel would take care not to harm Iranian citizens should a strike be launched against the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities. On Sunday, Mofaz, of...

North Korea on Saturday denied what the United States calls the communist state's "blackmail" tactics in a stand-off over its nuclear weapons drive, state media reported. Denouncing the US claims as "far-fetched" and "sinister," the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) held Washington responsible for the global as well as regional nuclear tensions. "The conception of absolute denuclearisation on this planet is quite meaningless unless the US, the nuclear weapon state, proves its anti-nuclear policy by dismantling its nuclear weapons and abandoning its nuclear threat," KCNA said. "This is the stark reality today created by the US nuclear blackmail...

<p>April 26, 2003 -- President Bush was right to label North Korea's claim that it now possesses a nuclear arsenal little more than an attempt at "blackmail."</p> <p>More important, the president made it clear "to the North Koreans and the world [that] we're not going to be threatened."</p>

Will the depressing news about the ever-eroding "legacy" of William Jefferson Clinton, not to mention the never-ending gullibility and stupidity of Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter, never stop? Since 9/11, we've had countless reports of the missed opportunities of the Clinton administration to put Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of commission. And now comes the recent headline news that North Korea reneged on the Carter-brokered 1994 peaceful "accomodation" between the Clinton administration and the tyrannical North Korean dictatorial regime -- the "Agreed Framework" between the two nations in which North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear weapons program and...

I haven’t heard this stated anywhere, but after reading several editorials, and the statement by Condoleezza Rice, something to the effect “We don’t want to witness a smoking gun where the smoke is a mushroom cloud”, it dawned on me what Western powers are really terrified of, losing power. The Assumptions: 1. Saddam Hussein possesses a few small nuclear devices. 2. He has the ability to secretly transport these devices to the United States. What he wont do: He wouldn’t actually detonate these devices in a large metropolitan area. This would be suicide on his part. If he did, there...

Given the likelihood of a US invasion of Iraq, it's utterly crucial and in the American spirit that we engage in an extensive national debate about this issue. Political staff writer Peter Grier of The Christian Science Monitor is somewhat accurate in his assessment that the more pertinent ideological debate is occurring within the Republican/Conservative camp rather than between the Republican - Democratic partisan divide. He states: "Call it "realists" versus "Reaganites", although this oversimplifies things". However, I conceptualize this ongoing dispute regarding an "Iraq attack" just a little bit differently, with a three-way split among the Republican/Conservative camp as...