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17 October 2006 North Korea's nuclear test has been linked to a plutonium process that was unfrozen after George W. Bush started talking tough about regime change in Pyongyang and reversed a Clinton administration policy against aiming nuclear weapons at non-nuclear states.
The New York Times reported that U.S. officials have identified the source of the North Korean nuclear blast as plutonium harvested from a small nuclear reactor whose nuclear fuel was put under seal in 1994 through a deal reached with the Clinton administration. But in 2003, after two years of mounting threats from George W. Bush - including listing North Korea as part of the "axis of evil" - the government of Kim Jong Il threw out international inspectors, unsealed the plutonium and began processing it. Instead, Bush cut off nuclear talks with North Korea and stepped up spending on a "Star Wars" missile shield. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Bush got tougher still, vowing to "rid the world of evil" and listing North Korea as part of the "axis of evil." |
By KWANG-TAE KIM
Associated Press Tue Oct 17, 2006 SEOUL, South Korea - The man once considered the mentor of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Tuesday that the reclusive country's nuclear weapons program cannot be stopped unless the strongman is ousted.
But Kim's total grip on the communist society makes that only a remote possibility, Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean government official ever to defect to South Korea, told The Associated Press. |
www.chinaview.cn
2006-10-18 WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that last week's nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was fuelled by plutonium, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
The newspaper quoted unidentified officials as reporting that the explosion was most likely not fuelled by uranium, but rather by plutonium harvested from its small nuclear reactor. |
By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Oct. 16, 2006 VIENNA, Austria - The head of the U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that as many as 30 countries could soon have technology that would let them produce atomic weapons "in a very short time," joining the nine states known or suspected to have such arms.
Comment: After ElBaradei's announcement, Bush announced that all 30 countries are now a part of the "Axis of Evil". Curiously, he then added that any country whose citizens eat food or consume any resources at all would also be added to the infamous axis.
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