It's official: N Korea wants nuclear weapons

The Age ^ | June 9 2003 | AFP

[yonif]

Communist North Korea admitted publicly for the first time today in an official media dispatch that it was seeking nuclear weapons.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) also explained for the first time North Korean thinking behind its drive for nuclear deterrence.

"Our desire to have a nuclear deterrent is not to blackmail anybody, but to reduce conventional weaponry and thus convert human resources and funnel money into economic construction and the people's lives," KCNA said in a commentary in Korean monitored here by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Since the nuclear crisis erupted eight months ago, North Korea has frequently referred publicly to its possession of a powerful physical deterrent.

But never before has Pyongyang admitted in public to either seeking or possessing nuclear weapons.

The nuclear crisis was triggered in October last year when the United States revealed that North Korea has admitted in private talks with Washington to running a nuclear weapons program based on uranium.

North Korea also suggested that it was seeking other weapons of mass destruction at lower cost than nuclear bombs.

US and South Korea intelligence believe North Korea has a large stockpile of chemical and biological weapons.

"We will strengthen a powerful physical deterrent that costs less but can incapacitate any high-tech or nuclear weapons unless the United States gives up its hostile policy towards North Korea," KCNA said.

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"Our desire to have a nuclear deterrent is not to blackmail anybody, but to reduce conventional weaponry and thus convert human resources and funnel money into economic construction and the people's lives," KCNA said in a commentary in Korean monitored here by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Sounds resonable enough to me. Of course, if we go along with their ideas and logic it would be cheaper for us to simply wipe countries we see as enemies off the face of the earth and we won't need as big an army or as many weapons...

[Atchafalaya]

Works for me.

[lavaroise]

"Our desire to have a nuclear deterrent is not to blackmail anybody, but to reduce conventional weaponry and thus convert human resources and funnel money into economic construction and the people's lives," KCNA said in a commentary in Korean monitored here by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Oh, gees, North Korea does not want to export its murderous regime and confine people from its disease like regime that offers no immunity from its abuses.

It seems to me NK is developing a sort of immunity, which is called bully your neighbor and destroy his immunity from you.

[backhoe]

FR was 'way ahead of the curve on this story:

-The Atomic Genie- what we know about North Korea's Nuclear program--

[American in Israel]

Perhaps we should inform them that we are willing to air mail a few of them if they do not get their act together.

[showme_the_Glory]

"It's official: N Korea wants nuclear weapons"

Let's send them a few..............

[b4its2late]

Seeking? Take them down before they have a chance to "find" any......

[Grampa Dave]

But wait, the left wingers and the so called right wingers before the regime change happened in Iraq were screaming 24/7 that the NK's had nuclear weapons, ICBM's capable of orbiting around the moon, and GW was a dummy for not taking the NK's on first!

So this must not be true if these brainiacs from the left and the third parties knew that the NK's had so many nukes way back last year and early this year.

[John Will]

Time for a candygram of a few megatons from the air.

[BaBaStooey]

It's official: N Korea wants nuclear weapons

And in a related story, the sky is blue and George Steinbrenner wants to win baseball games.

[Consort]

Pre-emption usually works in these cases.

[Future Snake Eater]

"Our desire to have a nuclear deterrent is not to blackmail anybody, but to reduce conventional weaponry and thus convert human resources and funnel money into economic construction and the people's lives," KCNA said in a commentary in Korean monitored here by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Oh, isn't that so thoughtful of them? Man, I feel so guilty for being an evil American now. We've been bullying this government, and they just want to help their own people. I think I'll volunteer to be cannibalized by one of those starving villages, just to show how much I care, like my fellow human shields in Iraq.

How'd that turn out, anyway?

[Charles Martel]

Sort of a "Blinding Flash of the Obvious", huh?

[Kozak]

Well then we should supply them with plenty of nulear warheads. Delivery by ICBM and B2.

[jerseygirl]

:)

[Darksheare]

This former artillery type likes that idea.