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political : NORTH KOREA 'MAKES WEAPON PLEDGE'

[+] serious ballot by herzog
created Sat Sep 23, 06
North Korea has said it plans to increase the amount of plutonium it extracts for use in nuclear weapons, according to a US scholar.

Selig Harrison said North Korean officials had told him they would unload nuclear fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor by the year's end.

Mr Harrison said Pyongyang wants "to use Yongbyon as leverage" to get bilateral talks with the US.

The US insists the nuclear issue can only be addressed in six-party talks.

Pyongyang walked out of multilateral negotiations with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea late last year in protest at US financial sanctions.

It had agreed to enter the talks when offered aid and security guarantees in exchange for dismantling its nuclear programme.

International concern sparked by the North's recent missile tests has been mounting with speculation that it may be planning to test a nuclear bomb.

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Are you glad the world dealt with North Korea diplomatically rather than resorting to force?

Yes, diplomacy was the best choice
No, it doesn't seem to have worked very well

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Doesn't it seem strange that while the Bush Administration invades Iraq because they strongly suspect WMD's, and threaten to bomb Iran over the possibility that they might produce weapons grade plutonium, that they don't go after North Korea. North Korea has not only threatened, but actually produced nuclear weapons along with testing delivery systems. This hands-off policy toward North Korea while pushing and shoving weaker nations, makes America seem a bully and a coward.

by margaret123 on Sat Sep 23, 06 9:34am [+]

No, it's the only rational response.

We strive to prevent nations from aquiring nukes. But once they do acquire them, thank you Mr. Clinton, they cannot be touched without risking a few million american lives.

Prevention is key, when that fails we have to make do with containment.

by herzog on Sat Sep 23, 06 9:38am [+]

So, let me get this straight: The fact that the North Koreans developed and tested nuclear weapons, along with testing their delivery systems, during the past six years, and that is the Clinton Administration's fault? Well, I guess if the current massive, hisotorical deficit is his fault, and the boom under Clinton, Reagan's fault, then I guess it's Clinton's fault that North Korea has been allowed to develop nuclear weapons and delivery systems under Bush.

by margaret123 on Sat Sep 23, 06 10:08am [+]

You don't remember the clinton administration giving the koreans two nuclear reactors in exchange for promising not to build nukes, which they then immediately built? You don't really think that happened under bush do you?

by herzog on Sat Sep 23, 06 10:33am [+]

Mr. Herzog: Note that the intent of the Clinton Administration was to deter the North Koreans from developing weapons grade nukes. Perhaps is was quixotic, but the intention was there.

My point was/is that the Bush Administration is so inconsistent in their policy toward different nations; that to go to war against suspected WMD's and not go to war against countries that have nukes and are testing long range delivery systems is grossly hypocritical and smacks of bullying and cowardice.

Another glaring hypocrisy: To continue to embargo Cuba as a "communist" nation while doing business with China and embracing them as a "friend." Is this disgusting crap or not?

by margaret123 on Sat Sep 23, 06 11:02am [+]

Voted : No, it doesn't seem to have worked very well
Still, call me in eight to ten years. That'll be about when they'll have a working device. *Then* I'll start fretting...

by Truthseeker013 on Sat Sep 23, 06 12:10pm [+]

Voted : No, it doesn't seem to have worked very well
I think both the Clinton and Bush administration are to blame for this situation. Probably a little more on Bush for the same reason I criticise the war in Iraq. Going after the wrong target.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Sun Sep 24, 06 1:21pm [+]

Ha, no one who voted yes could back it up. Why does that always happen?

by herzog on Sun Sep 24, 06 7:49pm [+]

Voted : Yes, diplomacy was the best choice
Diplomacy is an ongoing thing, and it doesn't mean walking away taking people's word for things.

Using force? Are you seriously proposing a second Korean War? IMO, that would be asinine and counter- productive.

by Cathexis on Mon Sep 25, 06 7:05am [+]

Cath: so diplomacy has prevented North Korea from developing nuclear weapons? I'd say not.

by herzog on Mon Sep 25, 06 4:01pm [+]

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