Threat Posed by North Korea Exaggerated by White House Say Experts

Experts claims which mirror the White House's tactics concerning the threat posed by Iraq in 2003. International nuclear experts have accused the Bush administration of exaggerating North Korea's nuclear threat to justify its presence in the “axis of evil”.

"It's up there with the Iraq nuclear assessment," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security. "It was aluminium tubes in both cases. They may have done the same (with North Korea) and weighted it far too highly." Unlike the Iraqi case, the 2002 incident did not lead to war. "But it caused a lot of damage," he said, noting that the US accusations led to the breakdown of the "grand bargain" negotiated by the Clinton administration and prompted North Korea to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and end a freeze on plutonium production.

For some odd reason this one is not hard to swallow. What motives wouls the US have? Surely the international community will be very skeptical assertions by the US.

www.independent.co.uk...

I know this is a rhetorical question. But, aren't these the same North Koreans that recently had a joint-Syrian nuke project turned into dust recently by the IAF?
It is no exaggeration that these same North Koreans are one of the technological funnels for questionable nuclear technology. We can find many examples of their involvement in the proliferation of this technology to many questionable client states and possibly even link them to some non-state affiliated entities.

The Bush White House has every right to question their technology buying habits and their lack of forthrightness when dealing with them on this issue. They are a Chinese sponsored client-state that responds only to their masters in Beijing. If it suites their master then they respond to us during regional talks. If it doesn't serve Chinese interests then they are slow to respond and often ignore international and regional efforts to change their behavior.

Make no mistake, this is a Communist controlled slave state. There is no citizen freedom or input, they have no visible domestic infrastructure to support their citizenry. They are nearly, totally dependent on Chinese subsidies for their continued survival. They occasionally extort us and their regional neighbors for cash influxes. They, (their leadership) are a pariah, and are used in the Orient as a thorn in our and our allies sides. I am personally repulsed by the obvious crime of enslavement that the Chinese and their national leadership have thrust upon these hapless souls.

Let's do some light reading, shall we?
Nuclear Jihadist
Authored: Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
It's a short story about a enterprising young engineer frolicking around a nuclear wonderland. A great read to share with the kids at bedtime!

[edit on 4-3-2008 by sharkman]

[edit on 4-3-2008 by sharkman]