Reid: Investigate Bush Over North Korea Nukes

Oh yeah, these are the guys we need in power.

From miles away. The enemy within.

Wake me when its time to go door to door.

Bush's fault, Bush's fault, Bush's fault!

Well, I guess the president IS running for re-election.

The Democrat party truly has become the insane clown posse.

Uh Dingy Harry,

I am convulsing right now. You owe me a new keyboard for this post... vomit EVERYWHERE!!!

Hell, let them investigate Bush for failed North Korea policies so we can all find out, once again, that Clinton handed them the technology.

The Democrat party truly has become the insane clown posse. Makes that "a$$ clown posse..."

Reid called on Bush to "rally the international community and ... directly speak with the North Koreans so they understand we will not continue to stand on the sidelines."

So what does Reid propose we do? Bomb them?

In this case, we shouldn't consult with our allies, e.g. South Korea.

Would you all excuse me for a moment, I need to go punch something...............ah, okay, that feels better.

"Congratulations, Kim."

Reid is an idiot.
He should onvestigate Clinton handing the NorKs the materials for a nuke.

"In a release, Reid said that "on the Bush Administration's watch, North Korea's arsenal has grown to as many as a dozen bombs"

How does he know this? It wouldn't seem logical that they would build a dozen of them and just now be testing to study their effects or ability.

Yeah, go ahead Reid...open up this can of worms. Let's let Chris Wallace ask Clinton about HIS North Korea policies, while we're at it.

My word, has Dirty Harry, no shame?

Ummm. Shouldn't it be "Investigate Carter, Albright, and Clinton over NK Nukes"?

So much for politics stopping at the water's edge.

Hey Harry: You dumb cluck

North Korea announced January 10, 2003 that it was withdrawing from the NPT, effective January 11. Although Article X of the NPT requires that a country give three months' notice in advance of withdrawing, North Korea argues that it has satisfied this requirement because it originally announced its decision to withdraw March 12, 1993. Since then, whether North Korea remains an NPT state-party is ambiguous.

According to the "agreed framework" the spent fuel from North Korea's 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon was to be put into containers as soon as possible (a process called "canning") and removed from the country. The canning process, conducted with U.S. financing, began April 27, 1996 and was finished in April 2000. However, North Korea refused to ship it and the spent fuel remains in North Korea today.

Anyone with a properly functioning brain, Harry, can see this all happened before Rove the magnificent bastard was assigned an office in the west wing of the White House.

Two years later the Bush administration confronted Pyongyang with proof that they had reprocessed it into weapons-grade plutonium. North Korea admitted to doing so. Last night is further proof. According to the CIA, the amount of fuel is sufficient for several nuclear weapons.

Members of KEDO (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, the organization responsible for developing the power reactors in North Korea.

	Japan Executive Board Member since March 19, 1995 (www.mofa.go.jp)

	The Republic of Korea (www.unikorea.go.kr or www.mofat.go.kr/en/) Executive Board Member since March 19, 1995

	United States of America (www.state.gov) Executive Board Member since March 19, 1995

	European Union (www.europa.eu.in t) Executive Board Member since September 19, 1997

	New Zealand (www.mft.govt.nz/) Member since June 26, 1995

	Australia (www.dfat.gov.au) Member since September 19, 1995

	Canada (www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca) Member since November 24, 1995

	Indonesia (www.dfa-deplu.go.id) Member since May 7, 1996

	Chile (www.minrel.cl) Member since July 17, 1996

	Argentina (www.mrecic.gov.ar) Member since September 5, 1996

	Poland (www.msz.gov.pl/start.php) Member since September 25, 1997

	Czech Republic (www.czech.cz) Member since February 9, 1999

	Uzbekistan (jahon.mfa.uz/RUSSIAN/siyosat/indeks.htm) Member since December 11, 2000

Timeline from a BBC article

2002
3-5 October 2002: On a visit to the North Korean capital Pyongyang, US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly presses the North on suspicions that it is continuing to pursue a nuclear energy and missiles programme.

Mr Kelly says he has evidence of a secret uranium-enriching programme carried out in defiance of the 1994 Agreed Framework.

Under this deal, North Korea agreed to forsake nuclear ambitions in return for the construction of two safer light water nuclear power reactors and oil shipments from the US.

16 October: North Korea admitted in their talks to a secret nuclear arms programme.

17 October: Initially the North appears conciliatory. Leader Kim Jong-il says he will allow international weapons inspectors to check that nuclear facilities are out of use.

18 October: Five Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea 25 years before are allowed a brief visit home - but end up staying, provoking more tension in the region.

20 October: North-South Korea talks in Pyongyang are undermined by the North's nuclear programme "admission".

US Secretary of State Colin Powell says further US aid to North Korea is now in doubt.

The North adopts a mercurial stance, at one moment defiantly defending its "right" to weapons development and at the next offering to halt nuclear programmes in return for aid and the signing of a "non-aggression" pact with the US.

It argues that the US has not kept to its side of the Agreed Framework, as the construction of the light water reactors - due to be completed in 2003 - is now years behind schedule.

14 November: US President George W Bush declares November oil shipments to the North will be the last if the North does not agree to put a halt to its weapons ambitions.

18 November: Confusion clouds a statement by North Korea in which it initially appears to acknowledge having nuclear weapons. A key Korean phrase understood to mean the North does have nuclear weapons could have been mistaken for the phrase "entitled to have", Seoul says.

11 December: North Korean-made Scud missiles are found aboard a ship bound for Yemen, provoking American outrage.

The US detains the ship, but is later forced to allow the ship to go, conceding that neither country has broken any law.

12 December: The North threatens to reactivate nuclear facilities for energy generation, saying the Americans' decision to halt oil shipments leaves it with no choice. It blames the US for wrecking the 1994 pact.

13 December: North asks the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to remove seals and surveillance equipment - the IAEA's "eyes and ears" on the North's nuclear status - from its Yongbyon power plant.

22 December: The North begins removing monitoring devices from the Yongbyon plant.

24 December: North Korea begins repairs at the Yongbyon plant.

North-South Korea talks over reopening road and rail border links, which have been struggling on despite the increased tension, finally stall.

25 December: It emerges that North Korea had begun shipping fuel rods to the Yongbyon plant which could be used to produce plutonium.

26 December: The IAEA expresses concern in the light of UN confirmation that 1,000 fuel rods have been moved to the Yongbyon reactor.

27 December: North Korea says it is expelling the two IAEA nuclear inspectors from the country. It also says it is planning to reopen a reprocessing plant, which could start producing weapons grade plutonium within months.

2003

6 January: The IAEA passes a resolution demanding that North Korea readmit UN inspectors and abandon its secret nuclear weapons programme "within weeks", or face possible action by the UN Security Council.

7 January: The US says it is "willing to talk to North Korea about how it meets its obligations to the international community". But it "will not provide quid pro quos to North Korea to live up to its existing obligations".

10 January: North Korea announces it will withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

28 January: In his annual State of the Union address, President Bush says North Korea is "an oppressive regime [whose] people live in fear and starvation".

29 January: North Korea says Mr Bush's speech is an "undisguised declaration of aggression to topple the DPRK system" and dubs him a "shameless charlatan".

31 January: Unnamed American officials are quoted as saying that spy satellites have tracked movement at the Yongbyon plant throughout January, prompting fears that North Korea is trying to reprocess plutonium for nuclear bombs.

5 February: North Korea says it has reactivated its nuclear facilities and their operations are now going ahead "on a normal footing".

12 February: The IAEA finds North Korea in breach of nuclear safeguards and refers the matter to the UN security council.

24 February: North Korea fires a missile into the sea between South Korea and Japan.

25 February: Roh Moo-hyun sworn in as South Korean president.

2 March: Four North Korean fighter jets intercept a US reconnaissance plane in international air space and shadow it for 22 minutes.

10 March: North Korea fires a second missile into the sea between South Korea and Japan in as many weeks.

1 April: The US announces that "stealth" fighters sent to South Korea for a training exercise are to stay on once the exercises end.

9 April: The United Nations Security Council expresses concern about North Korea's nuclear programme, but fails to condemn Pyongyang for pulling out of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

12 April: In a surprise move, North Korea signals it may be ready to end its insistence on direct talks with the US, announcing that "if the US is ready to make a bold switchover in its Korea policy for a settlement of the nuclear issue, [North Korea] will not stick to any particular dialogue format".

18 April: North Korea announces that it has started reprocessing its spent fuel rods. The statement is later amended to read that Pyongyang has been "successfully going forward to reprocess" the rods.

23 April: Talks begin in Beijing between the US and North Korea, hosted by China. The talks are led by the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian affairs, James Kelly, and the deputy director general of North Korea's American Affairs Bureau, Li Gun.

24 April: American officials say Pyongyang has told them that it now has nuclear weapons, after the first direct talks for months between the US and North Korea in Beijing end a day early.

2 May: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer expresses concern after an official from North Korea's ruling Worker's Party is found on board a state-owned ship accused of bringing A$80m (US$50m) worth of heroin into Australia.

12 May: North Korea says it is scrapping a 1992 agreement with the South to keep the peninsula free from nuclear weapons - Pyongyang's last remaining international agreement on non-proliferation.

2 June: A visiting delegation of US congressmen led by Curt Weldon says North Korean officials admitted the country had nuclear weapons had "just about completed" reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods which would allow it to build more.

9 June: North Korea says publicly that it will build a nuclear deterrent, "unless the US gives up its hostile policy".

13 June: South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korean officials told the US on 30 June that it had completed reprocessing the fuel rods.

9 July: South Korea's spy agency says North Korea has started reprocessing a "small number" of the 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at Yongbyon.

1 August: North Korea agrees to six-way talks on its nuclear programme, South Korea confirms. The US, Japan, China and Russia will also be involved.

27-29 August: Six-nation talks in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear programme. The meeting fails to bridge the gap between Washington and Pyongyang. Delegates agree to meet again.

2 October: North Korea announces publicly it has reprocessed the spent fuel rods.

16 October: North Korea says it will "physically display" its nuclear deterrent.

30 October: North Korea agrees to resume talks on the nuclear crisis, after saying it is prepared to consider the US offer of a security guarantee in return for ending its nuclear programme.

21 November: Kedo, the international consortium formed to build 'tamper-proof' nuclear power plants in North Korea, decides to suspend the project.

9 December: North Korea offers to "freeze" its nuclear programme in return for a list of concessions from the US. It says that unless Washington agrees, it will not take part in further talks.

The US rejects North Korea's offer. President George W Bush says Pyongyang must dismantle the programme altogether.

2004

10 January: An unofficial US team visits what the North calls its "nuclear deterrent" facility at Yongbyon.

22 January: US nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker tells Congress that the delegates visiting Yongbyon were shown what appeared to be weapons-grade plutonium, but he did not see any evidence of a nuclear bomb.

23 May: The UN atomic agency is reported to be investigating allegations that North Korea secretly sent uranium to Libya when Tripoli was trying to develop nuclear weapons.

23 June: Third round of six nation talks held in Beijing, with the US making a new offer to allow North Korea fuel aid if it freezes then dismantles its nuclear programmes.

2 July: US Secretary of State Colin Powell meets the North Korean Foreign Minister, Paek Nam-sun, in the highest-level talks between the two countries since the crisis erupted.

23 August: North Korea describes US President George W Bush as an "imbecile" and a "tyrant that puts Hitler in the shade", in response to comments President Bush made describing the North's Kim Jong-il as a "tyrant".

28 September: North Korea says it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon said the weapons were needed for "self-defence" against "US nuclear threat".

2005

14 January: North Korea says it is willing to restart stalled talks on its nuclear programme, according to the official KCNA news agency.

19 January: Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush's nominee as secretary of state, identifies North Korea as one of six "outposts of tyranny" where the US must help bring freedom.

10 February: North Korea says it is suspending its participation in the talks over its nuclear programme for an "indefinite period", blaming the Bush administration's intention to "antagonise, isolate and stifle it at any cost". The statement also repeats North Korea's assertion to have built nuclear weapons for self-defence.

18 April: South Korea says North Korea has shut down its Yongbyon reactor, a move which could allow it to extract more fuel for nuclear weapons.

1 May: North Korea fires a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, on the eve of a meeting of members of the international Non-Proliferation Treaty.

11 May: North Korea says it has completed extraction of spent fuel rods from Yongbyon, as part of plans to "increase its nuclear arsenal".

16 May: North and South Korea hold their first talks in 10 months, with the North seeking fertiliser for its troubled agriculture sector.

25 May: The US suspends efforts to recover the remains of missing US servicemen in North Korea, saying restrictions placed on its work were too great.

22 June: North Korea requests more food aid from the South during ministerial talks in Seoul, the first for a year.

9 July: North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks, as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a tour of the region.

12 July: South Korea offers the North huge amounts of electricity as an incentive to end its nuclear weapons programme.

25 July: Fourth round of six-nation talks begins in Beijing.

7 August: The talks reach deadlock and a recess is called.

13 September: Talks resume, but a new North Korean request to be built a light water reactor prompts warnings of a "standoff" between the parties.

19 September: In what is initially hailed as an historic joint statement, North Korea agrees to give up all its nuclear activities and rejoin the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the US says it had no intention of attacking.

20 September: North Korea says it will not scrap its nuclear programme until it is given a civilian nuclear reactor, undermining the joint statement and throwing further talks into doubt.

7 December: A senior US diplomat brands North Korea a "criminal regime" involved in arms sales, drug trafficking and currency forgery.

20 December: North Korea says it intends to resume building nuclear reactors, because the US had pulled out of a key deal to build it two new reactors.

2006

12 April: A two-day meeting aimed at persuading North Korea to return to talks on its nuclear programme fails to resolve the deadlock.

3 July: Washington dismisses a threat by North Korea that it will launch a nuclear strike against the US in the event of an American attack, as a White House spokesman described the threat as "deeply hypothetical".

4 July: North Korea test-fires at least six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2, despite repeated warnings from the international community.

5 July: North Korea test-fires a seventh missile, despite international condemnation of its earlier launches.

7 July: South Korea suspends food aid in protest at the missile tests.

15 July: The UN Security Council unanimously votes to impose sanctions on North Korea over the missile tests. The resolution demands UN members bar exports and imports of missile-related materials to North Korea and that it halt its ballistic missile programme.

11 September: Senior US diplomat Christopher Hill warns North Korea against a nuclear test, saying that it would be a provocative act.

27 September: North Korea blames US financial sanctions for the deadlock in multilateral talks on its nuclear programme. In a speech to the UN General Assembly, envoy Choe Su-Hon said that North Korea was willing to hold talks, but the US stance had created an impasse.

3 October: North Korea is to conduct a nuclear test to "bolster" its self-defence in the face of US military hostility, the foreign ministry says. In a statement, it says North Korea would carry out the test "in the future... where safety is firmly guaranteed" - but did not say when.

9 October: North Korea says it has carried out its first ever test of a nuclear weapon. It calls the test a "historic event" and says it was carried out safely and successfully.

This article was written Oct 3, 2006 so I assume it was updated today with that last paragraph.

North Korean nuclear ambition did not exist, prior to the Bush administration. Every single graph and interview I've seen in the DBM demonstrates this. /sarc

Reid is giddy with joy. His enemy - the United States of America - has had a bad day. That is always good news for communists and other leftists.

Investigate Harry Reids sweetheart deals and funneling of public works projects to his sons and sons in law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reid: Investigate Bush Over North Korea Nukes

Don't throw Bush into that briar patch ... oh .. don't do that.

How in the world do the people of Nevada send this ignorant partisan hack to Washington? I can understand how this mindless dolt can become leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate. That makes sense. But I'm troubled by the people of Nevada inflicting this boob on our nation.

Hey, they opened the "can of worms" on 9/11 and Gorelick managed to get 'em out unscathed. What do the Democrats have to fear, with the gutless leadership in the House and Senate?

LMAO, someone farted! Investigate Bush!! These Democrats are friggin' off their rockers! Please tell me America itself has not become so insane they're actually thinking of handing over Congressional control to these loonies. Please tell me America isn't that crazy to give legislative power to obsessive Bush haters.

The Democrat's ignorance is exceeded only by their ineptness to lead.

The nation will not survive another Democrat administration..

The "American Century" will end....

Semper Fi

Harry Reid.....Can you say his name in mixed company??

That didn't take long, did it?

Johnny7: Hang Clinton Over North Korea Nukes

Once again, no plan, no policy, no strategy except: Blame Bush & hold investigations. That will REALLY show Comrade Kim!!! Reid's 'plan' would only empower that lunatic all the more.

While you're at it Harry, you may want to first investigate the failed policies of Clinton and Albright, who had the last real opportunity to stop the North Korean nuclear program. Clinton provided the reactors that are the source of the plutonium that North Korea may use to build more bombs. Reid's honesty rating is now in negative numbers.

Please, oh please, let's investigate... FULLY.

These idiots are unbelievable! Bush could cure AIDS with a procedure that produces mammoth amounts of fossil fuels as a byproduct and the dems would want to impeach him for it.

"At least I tried...", "I wanted to..."

Reid's honesty rating is now in negative numbers.

Were they ever in the positive?

Calling the test "reckless and counterproductive," Reid called on Bush to "rally the international community and ... directly speak with the North Koreans so they understand we will not continue to stand on the sidelines."

LOL, Reid is so ill-informed he doesn't know that the US is involved with talks with North Korea in the 6 party framework. Duhhhhh Harry. It's with Iran that the US is not in direct talks with the Iranians AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE IRANIANS REFUSE TO DEAL WITH US AND WILL ONLY WORK WITH EUROPE!

And by the way, aren't 6 party talks party of that multilateralism you DemoCrites said is so important in dealing with the world's rogues?? Now you claim you want unilateralism?? Which is it dope???

I always thought of Nevada as a MANLY state, yet they send this GIRLIE-man to the Senate...I don't get it.....unless it;s because he's Mormon.

Please tell me America itself has not become so insane they're actually thinking of handing over Congressional control to these loonies. Please tell me America isn't that crazy to give legislative power to obsessive Bush haters.

Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men, right?

Harry Reid is, quite simply, a disgrace. A squalid little partisan leech.

Reid's skull should be investigated for evidence of the presence of a brain.

"Dittos"

Chuck Foo Harry!

The Clinton Administration could not have turned that nuclear material over to the North Koreans in 1994 without the approval of congress. Who ran congress until Nov. of 1994? Harry?

Get real Harry. When are you going to stop the monday morning quarterbacking and realize what's at stake for our nation's national security? It's things like this that have me fumed. The Democratic leadership is devoid of leadership on national security issues. All they can do is blame Bush, because he's the big punching bag for the MoveOn.org crowd. Meanwhile, Iran and N. Korea continue to laugh at the diplomatic route that Dirty Harry so embraces.

They don't miss a beat, do they?

Reid: Investigate Bush Over North Korea Nukes

Which, being translated, means, "whatever you do, don't look over here!"

Reid must be getting senile.

"paralyzed by internal divisions."

You mean like a Minority party that automatically takes a partisan stand of 100% opposition on EVERY issues?

Ever heard of Loyal Opposition? Politics ends at the Waters edge Dopey Harry? BTW, have you gave the Jack Abrhamoff PAC money back yet Dopey?

"he said Bush is "distracted by Iraq and paralyzed by internal divisions."

Yeah, Iraq is just a distraction. Thank you for clearly that up. Hope you never see majority power you twirp!