U.S. Aid Helps N. Korea Build Nukes, Congress Told (Flashback)

CNS News ^ | April 17, 2000 | Mikey_1962

[Mikey_1962]

North Korea's nuclear production capacity will increase from a dozen nuclear bombs a year to 65 a year by 2010, thanks in large part to American taxpayer money, two renowned U.S. nuclear scientists told congressional leaders last week.

North Korea observers have long suspected the communist dictatorship is using Western humanitarian aid to starving North Koreans to feed Kim Jong Il's million-man army.

But an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, William R. Graham and Victor Gilinsky told members of the House Policy Committee.

North Korea's missile proliferation has accelerated dramatically since the Clinton-Gore administration began giving aid to the regime in 1994.

"There were no known No-dong missile sales abroad until after the United States signed the so-called Agreed Framework with North Korea," House Speaker Dennis Hastert's North Korea advisory group reported.

But since U.S. aid began, the communist state has sold crucial technology to Iran for the Shahab missile that now threatens U.S. forces and their allies in the Middle East, and for a Pakistani missile in 1998 that disrupted the fragile stability of South Asia.

In 1994 the Clinton administration signed an agreement with North Korea that was designed to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons development program. North Korea sought light water reactors to provide for their energy needs and the U.S. agreed to provide them in exchange for North Korea giving up its nuclear program.

Western aid also earned donor countries the right to inspect the North Korean nuclear facilities.

[Mikey_1962]

April 2000 prediction coming true......

[LibLieSlayer]

klintoon inspired and catah and half-bright negotiated US help created north korean Nukes!

'toon's fault 100%!

LLS

[tomzz]

SlicKKK KKKlintler woke up every morning for eight years and said "Thank you, Lord (Satan to him), for giving me another 18 waking hours in which to f*** over the United States."

[Mo1]

Was this the plan Clinton claims he had?

[wastedyears]

I don't understand why we just can't stop any and all sort of aid to the hostiles of this country. The world would be a much better place. We could maybe even slow down the national debt clock.

[Lucky9teen]

Thanx Clinton...

But an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons

We could have gone in and said we'll give them $20 billion worth of hydroelectric dams and solar energy, wind power, whatever they wanted. We could have thrown in a $5 billion distribution system so that this energy could actually be used. Right now they have two light water reactors that will produce 490 kilograms of plutonium but no distribution system, and they have no idea how they're going to distribute that electricity - if indeed that was their intention at all."

I doubt it was and I doubt Clinton cared.

[Thombo2]

Thanx to American taxpayers,NK will be able to produce 60+ nukes per yr by 2010.Correction:Thank Clinton and his crew of usefull idiots/closet marxist's.Does anyone think for one moment that Kim would hesitate to use those nukes or give them to a terrorist group that would use them against the US?

[silverleaf]

ping a ding

Hope Jimmy Carter is hugging that Nobel Peace prize when he goes to bed every night.

[Brilliant]

[johnny7]

"Thank you, Lord (Satan to him), for giving me another 18 waking hours in which to f*** over the United States." -Bill Clinton

You're getting close....

[cgk]

an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons

Just great. The Legacy gets bigger all the time!

[The Great RJ]

Gee who was president then??? and when did the N. Koreans get this nuclear technology under a treaty negotiated by whom?? Inquiring minds want to know.

[buwaya]

They DON'T have two light-water reactors. These were never built, or even contracted for. Nor any other US nuclear aid that I know of, and I have been following the nuclear industry for decades.

The NK's did get financial and commodity aid from the US, South Korea, Japan and China, which helped the regime survive.

[monday]

"I don't understand why we just can't stop any and all sort of aid to the hostiles of this country. The world would be a much better place. We could maybe even slow down the national debt clock."

Because politicians and bureaucrats are stupid power hungry monsters who would sell their own mothers if you promised them "influence" in exchange for their bribes to foreign countries. The US state department is the single biggest threat to our interests worldwide and always has been. They work for themselves, not the American people.

[b4its2late]

North Korea's missile proliferation has accelerated dramatically since the Clinton-Gore administration began giving aid to the regime in 1994.

[Quix]

Thanks.

Just told a colleague I could document Klintoon's giving the NK's the tech to do it.

Printed it off for delivery.

Thanks.

[tje]

Thanks for posting..

[silverleaf]

Everyone in power in "the intelligence community" has been assessing for years that the Kim dynasty (now Kim Chong Il) are psychopathic enough to launch a war if the North Korean army starts to starve and threatens to turn on the regime.

So we feed the N Korean Army and thus we keep Kim in power so he won't turn into Doctor Demento. Now, Doctor Demento with nukes.

Of course, Madeleine Albright et al went way beyond this by treating this guy as a sane human being with some issues, who just needed to be wooed by the SuperPowers as if he was some kind of "equal". That's why the uber libs who see no evil they can't make a deal with, are still calling for "direct talks"

Too many talking heads seem to think they could solve this problem if only the Bush team took their advice.

Ha.