North Korea Admits Nuclear Weapons Program

Fox News | 10/16/02 | Brytani

[Brytani]

If Clinton et al messes don't clean us out first. Nothing like a mushroom cloud to clean up the environment - in a few million years.

[Brytani]

That's exactly what it is, and after watching the world shrug their shoulders at Saddam Hussein, who can blame them?

[Brytani]

Al Gore invented N. Korea, or was that armpits....either way, just ask him!!!

[Brytani]

His legacy just keeps growing and growing while our safety keeps going down.

Clinton belongs under a prison.

[Mo1]

Yes I am aware of all that which is why come out in the open with news we already knew

As for the new world order thingy .. they may want it but it ain't gonna happen and as for Russia .. not that I trust them .. but they trust China even less

[Brytani]

The good news is we can now watch the French go through round II of how horrible America is going after the poor koreans.

[ApesForEvolution]

No, I honestly believe that China/N. Korea, despite their economic challenges and struggle to avoid economic interdependence, as two peas of the same pod. N. Korea is the test balloon/pawn/surrogate that China uses to conduct specific local, regional and world affairs through. A nuclear N. Korea commands itself a stronger economy and is a better piece of the Chinese economic expansion, which is driven by a passion to lead the world through military strength and a weakened America. The world's economy shrinks when America is gone, but a 1 eyed man is king in a world that is blind. IMHO.

[GeneD]

Reuters has it. Note the opening:

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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 - In a stunning development that opens up the possibility of a new crisis in Asia, North Korea, confronted with U.S. "evidence," has acknowledged it is operating a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 agreement, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

One official told Reuters that the Bush administration believed North Korea's activities had "effectively nullified the 1994 Agreed Framework," a deal under which the reclusive Communist state promised to freeze its nuclear arms program.

But the officials said the administration was consulting with Congress and allies and had made no decision on the next steps in its relations with North Korea, which has made clear it wants more cooperation with the international community.

President George W. Bush and his administration entered office far more skeptical of Pyongyang than their predecessors in President Bill Clinton's administration.

Bush has included North Korea with Iran and Iraq in what he termed an "axis of evil" of states developing weapons of mass destruction and backing international terrorism.

But while some hard-liners on Bush's team have long looked for ways to scuttle the 1994 accord, analysts said he may be forced to find a way to keep talking to Pyongyang.

Allies Japan and South Korea have been much more willing to work with North Korea.

U.S. officials said that on a recent trip to Pyongyang, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly presented the North Koreans with documentation about the nuclear activities.

At first the North Koreans balked but eventually "they acknowledged they had a secret nuclear weapons program involving enriched uranium," one official said.

"By acknowledging that, the agreed framework was essentially nullified," he said.

Officials said they could not provide much detail without compromising intelligence sources and methods but once said, "Clearly it's a program that would have provided material that could have been used in nuclear weapons."

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Thanks again, Bill!

[Brytani]

You have got to be kidding!!! The US has had the intelligence showing N. Korea has nukes for a while now. They are just verifying what everyone already knew.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I have always been amazed that people buy into the line that Clinton is "smart" but just has "issues".

I have always thought he was a near-imbecile, in intellectual terms.

If he didn't have a willing media, a lap-dog minority population, union thugs and an omnipresent professional spin-ad machine protecting his every step, he would have a laughing stock within six months.

As it is, it took him six whole years to become one.

[Brytani]

Can we send Clinton there before we start blasting? Just a suggestion of course.

[swheats]

I could be wrong, but knowing Bush and company, they wouldn't reveal their hand and what their planning or strategy is. They have probably been considerig NK all along. It was the dems who wanted to debate Iraq. I still say this President is sly like a fox.

[MJY1288]

Iran announces they are releasing long held Israeli prisoners today.

Seems to me the "Axis of Evil" members are getting the message :-)

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

BREAKING NEWS:

N KOREA announces possessing Nukes and the missile technology to deliver them to America.

GEORGE W BUSH continues preparations to invade the impotent country of Iraq.

FR poster blame Clinton.

[ChadGore]

"Trust, but verify" (with a first-in-the-world exoatmospheric kill vehicle).

[fatguy]

You have got to be kidding!!! The US has had the intelligence showing N. Korea has nukes for a while now. They are just verifying what everyone already knew.

I guess I was dosing off during my morning national security briefings.

[Brian Mosely]

Three and a half years ago, the United States very nearly blundered into war with North Korea. Neither the Bush nor the Clinton administrations wanted that outcome; but few senior officials were willing to take the domestic political risks to avoid it-by making a nuclear deal with North Korea. It took a former president, Jimmy Carter, to defuse the crisis.

[MJY1288]

This all comes just after George W. Bush has Congressional approval to go to war against Iraq or any other nation that threatens our National Security.

I'm sure glad GWB doesn't listen to the press or the polls.

[MJY1288]

Jeema Catta to the rescue.

Very soon we will find out that Cuba has been producing chemical and biological weapons and it will become onother chapter in the last two democratic presidents legacy of failure

[ApesForEvolution]

Russia and China get along better than you believe. The propaganda to the contrary is just that. The Russia-Iraq, China-Iraq connections are just as much Russia-China joint policy as anything. Russian oil competes with ME oil and China is very, very keen on what the underpinnings are of 'fueling' their burgeoning economy's growth. The New Order of the World is more than half way done. The only thing left is a collapse within American government, which could be done by majorities in the house, senate and the dems taking the WH, or a collapse from attack. The question I have is, what role will terrorism inside America have on pushing American's to believe it is in our best interest to give up our freedoms and join the world 'kumbaya'. The wildest card of all that is so obvious an yet overlooked is how Mexican oil and US immigration policies (lack of) work to undermine America from within. It's a wild world and I guarantee you that not much of what you 'see' is actually what it is. FReegards