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Prison Planet
Reports today concerning the completed fueling of North Korea's long range Taepodong-2 missile and its planned launch within a month omit several key aspects of the story, including the fact that North Korea already launched a missile that hit Alaska, with the help of the US government.
In March 2003, the Korea Times reported that the U.S. National Assembly included a startling admission in its final report regarding Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.
A nuclear-capable North Korean test warhead was found in Alaska.
"According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,’’ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. "Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’’
The 1994 Agreed Framework deal gave North Korea the capacity to generate enough nuclear fuel to produce almost 100 nuclear bombs per year. A 1999 congressional study undertaken by the House North Korea Advisory Group warned,
“Through the provision of two light water reactors [LWRs] under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT].”
In April 2002 the Bush administration announced that it would release $95 million of American taxpayer’s dollars to begin construction of the ‘harmless’ light water reactors. Bush argued that arming the megalomaniac dictator Kim Jong-Il with the potential to produce a hundred nukes a year was, “vital to the national security interests of the United States.” Bush released even more money in January 2003, as reported by Bloomberg News,
“President George W. Bush is seeking $3.5 million for the international consortium that continues to build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, even as the U.S. confronts the communist regime over nuclear arms.”
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Clinton administration agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ stated that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington,
“LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs' worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs -- a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.”
“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring.”
According to the State Department, light water reactors in Iran can produce nuclear material but somehow the same rule doesn’t apply in North Korea.
Originally posted by RecDude
China gives only limited support to North Korea. Most of it is in the form of energy and food.
If they totally abandon North Korea then they would have to militarize their border even further to prevent millions of North Koreans from trying to defect into China in search of food.
Originally posted by stumason
Please, do your research before spouting off that "Japan isn't able to defend itself". I think they are more than capable. They're just not allowed to invade anyone....
Originally posted by kipman725
I don't see why fueling the missile shows that the missile is soon to be launched. In Britain ICBM's during the cold war were kept constantly fueled so they could be launched quickly.
Originally posted by Tranceopticalinclined
so if they launch this, what exactly will US do? just shake our fingers? an say no no no?
i mean isnt this pretty ballsy?
that is a country with nothing more then weapons, what does there people eat, metal?
honestly its pretty nuts when you use yer country's capital as a open house for your propaganda.
Originally posted by JIMC5499
I knew we shouldn't have sold North Korea that tanker full of Diet Coke and that ship full of Mentos.
Originally posted by Tranceopticalinclined
so if they launch this, what exactly will US do? just shake our fingers? an say no no no?
i mean isnt this pretty ballsy?
that is a country with nothing more then weapons, what does there people eat, metal?
honestly its pretty nuts when you use yer country's capital as a open house for your propaganda.
i'd still love to see it get launched, then destroyed right when it does enter international terrortory.
[edit on 20-6-2006 by Tranceopticalinclined]
Originally posted by RedGolemI dont know about how ballsy it is but I think I got to agree its kina nuts. His country can not feed its self and he still spends the capital on nukes, and missles while depending on charity from other nations for food. I dont really know what else to think about him.
Just so sad the whole way around.
Originally posted by rai76
Originally posted by RedGolemI dont know about how ballsy it is but I think I got to agree its kina nuts. His country can not feed its self and he still spends the capital on nukes, and missles while depending on charity from other nations for food. I dont really know what else to think about him.
Just so sad the whole way around.
But maybe if he manage to succeed his test he can sell his technology to the bad state and get lots of money for it?