N.Korea "could make 50 bombs a year"

Reuters ^ | 12/24/02 | Jim Wolf

[MJY1288]

I see a massive raid on their Nuclear Facilities in the near future

[backhoe]

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

[cgbg]

It sounds like N. Korea has a permanent solution to the California budget defcit. ;-)

btw why hasn't Patty Murray spoken out how good the N. Koreans are at building schools and roads and day care centers?

[cynicom]

Blackmail is coming, but not from NK.

[pabianice]

Yah... but it'll have to deliver then by ox cart...

[PJ-Comix]

Soooooo, cynicom, are you game for the big history quiz tomorrow? Since, as you claim, I am an intellectural fraud, you should beat me very easily. Plus I'll give you the advantage---Since you were in the Korean War, I'll even limit the first ten questions to that conflict. Will you accept the challenge? I dip my drinking gourd into the acrid waters of the Yalu River. See me drink from it and gorge my bladder. Hit me with those CHICOM HORDES! Play your bugles! Cynicom---HEEEEEEEEERE'S PJ!!!

[cynicom]

PJ...Humor is not your bag but childishness does become you.

[Glenn]

And we'd buy every one of them for more than we contribute in aid right this moment. When the Soviet Union went toes up, we bought excess plutonium and shipped to Oak Ridge et al. I tried for months to find out what we'd paid for it. It was, of course, a secret. Better export than oil or gold.

[PJ-Comix]

Funny how you feel free to cast aspersions upon my intelligence but then back down when faced with an open challenge. Oh well. Maybe we will still have a history quiz (including Korean War questions) tomorrow without the almighty cynicom in attendance.

p.s. QUICK, cynicom! What battleship was McArthur on when they the Marines landed on Inchon? And no fair peeking on Google for the correct answer.

[cynicom]

Pj ...Are you stalking me??? I would hate to think that. Please refrain.

[PJ-Comix]

No stalking. But you didn't answer the question. Anyway the correct answer is that it wasn't a battleship. It was an Amphibious Force Command Ship by the name of U.S.S. Mount McKinley (AGC-7).

[Jhoffa_]

Under the 1994 deal, North Korea agreed to freeze the 5-megawatt reactor plus the partially built 50- and 200-megawatt plants. Also frozen were a reprocessing facility and a fuel-rod fabrication plant at Yongbyon.

In exchange, Washington agreed to provide a $5 billion package to include two proliferation-resistant light-water reactors and 500,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil a year until the first light-water reactor was built.

I am confused..

This sounds like a good deal on the part of the Clinton administration. I hear some people making it sound as if we gave them the reactors in the first place.. but this article makes not that they already had them and we swapped them some "proliferation-resistant" facilities instead..

What's wrong with that? I would say billy bob krintoon actually got this one right.

Is there something I am missing here?

[Jhoffa_]

PS: You know, I also believe we never followed through on our end of the bargain.. (to build the plants)

If not, why not?

Seems like a stupid thing to do if you ask me.

[canuck_conservative]

Aren't the plutonium and uranium-type A-bombs different technologies - the uranium takes more material, but is "simpler" (the route Pakistan took)?

How did NK get technology to build the plutonium one?

[Question_Assumptions]

I see joint US and Chinese military actions in North Korea in the future. If the North Koreans keep acting like a hand grenade without a pin, it will also be in the best interest to neutralize their comrades on the Korean peninsula.

[Monty22]

"How did NK get technology to build the plutonium one? "

You'll be shocked to know this.. But it was the toon.

[Brilliant]

The North Korean fiasco is a good example why we cannot allow international nutcase dictators have the bomb.

[sheik yerbouty]

Not if they are "exeunt" off the world stage!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

THANK YOU BILL CLINTON