[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.

[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.