....North Korea twist
our arms into waiving the requirement for inspectors, tells this reader that it's OUR dear leader,
not Clinton and every other president since 1964 who's wimpy on the evildowers! So how do you explain
this, Tony Snow?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
Wednesday, 3 April, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK
US grants N Korea nuclear funds
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.
In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.
Wait: this guy is supposed to be tough on terror?....So, why would he do that, I wonder? Could this be a set up?
It has been angered by President Bush's accusation that Pyongyang was part of an "axis of evil" producing weapons of mass destruction.
Nobody likes to be called an evildoer...that was not very diplomatic, now was it?
This annoyance was compounded by Washington's decision to withhold this year's certification that North Korea is keeping its side of the Agreed Framework.
It has systematically refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its nuclear facility at the Yongbyon research base north of the capital.
And why would they, when you had said that they didn't have to allow inspections in.....hmm....the set up looks even more likely
The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof.
"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," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.
The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof.
But OUR Dear Leader doesn't have to listen to experts, he doesn't need to...He's The Decider!
Diplomacy - who needs it?