U.S. Aid Helps N. Korea Build Nukes

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U.S. Aid Helps N. Korea Build Nukes, Congress Told

By Lawrence Morahan
CNS Staff Writer
17 April, 2000

EXCERPT

(CNSNews.com) - North Korea's nuclear production capacity will increase from a dozen nuclear bombs a year to 65 a year by 2010, thanks in large part to American taxpayer money, two renowned U.S. nuclear scientists told congressional leaders last week.

North Korea observers have long suspected the communist dictatorship is using Western humanitarian aid to starving North Koreans to feed Kim Jong Il's million-man army.

But an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, William R. Graham and Victor Gilinsky told members of the House Policy Committee.

North Korea's missile proliferation has accelerated dramatically since the Clinton-Gore administration began giving aid to the regime in 1994.

 

Further proof that appeasement does not work.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/Archive/200202/POL20020215d.html

Congressmen Want Bush to End US Nuke Deal With North Korea
By Jim Burns
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
February 15, 2002

(CNSNews.com) - Three members of Congress are urging the Bush White House to cancel plans that were developed during the Clinton administration to supply North Korea with nuclear technology.

House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Chris Cox (R-Calif.) says a study conducted by his panel in 2000 found that under the Clinton-Gore administration, North Korea became the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region."

"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion," the study said.

 

News is news. Sometimes the truth is inconvenient to remember, but it is still there.

I am not the subject of the stories.

U.S policies in dealing with N. Korea is. Try that subject. It's a lot tougher to deal with than trying to insult the one that brings it up.


If there is a factual error in either story, please be good enough to point it out.

 

Correct, but we still sent them millions and millions of dollars to help them fund their secret nuke program.

 

Here's some more good info:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/military/proliferation/countries/n-korea.html



Tracking Nuclear Proliferation

EXCERPT

Even as the nations were debating implementation of the Agreed Framework, North Korea, the United States argues, was breaking the spirit, if not the letter, of the pact. Within months of signing the framework, North Korea and Pakistan reportedly cut a deal to trade missile technology for Pakistan's uranium enrichment techniques.

For more than three years, the North Koreans worked quietly on their uranium project while urging the United States to fully implement the Agreed Framework. According to a Chinese government report that was leaked to a Japanese newspaper, the project included a secret uranium processing facility located inside Mount Chonma, near the Chinese border.

The Clinton administration apparently learned of the secret program in late 1998 or early 1999, and by March 2000, President Clinton informed Congress he could no longer certify that "North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the capability to enrich uranium."

Over the next two years, the United States continued to compile evidence on North Korea's uranium project. It was this evidence that prompted President Bush to label the Kim Jong Il government part of the "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union address.

 

Two years to gather evidence of the failed Clinton policy,then..

We were obedient to the wishes of liberals, multilateral talks.:BangHead:

 

The history is plainly there to see. I'm just reminding people what it is. That doesn't correct the situation today, but it does remind us how we got to where we are.

No President's term stands alone. One is always left to deal with whatever the previous administration leaves behind. The results of Clinton's policies of appeasement are instructive. We ignore them at our peril.

Now, put your head back in the sand.

 

NORTH KOREA TIMELINE:


March 1999: U.S. Department of Energy intelligence report allegedly claims that North Korea is working on uranium enrichment techniques.

January 2000: U.S. and South African intelligence claim Congo may be supplying North Korea with uranium.

May 2001: North Korea threatens to pull out of the 1994 Agreed Framework, saying the U.S. has failed to live up to its obligations under the agreement.

June 2001: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) unable to verify that North Korea is not diverting nuclear material for military purposes, as North Korea has not provided the inspectors with sufficient access.

March 2002: President George W. Bush does not certify North Korea's compliance with the Agreed Framework, but sends fuel oil to Pyongyang under a waiver.

October 2002: U.S. claims that North Korea acknowledges a secret uranium enrichment program, prompted by U.S. intelligence indicating North Korea was trying to acquire large amounts of high-strength aluminum, useful in equipment to enrich uranium.

U.S. intelligence reportedly concludes that Pakistan was a major supplier of critical equipment to North Korea's newly revealed enrichment program.

November 2002: Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) decides to suspend heavy fuel oil shipments to North Korea until North Korea takes steps to dismantle its nuclear program.

U.S. tells Pakistan that inappropriate contact with North Korea will have consequences.

December 2002: North Korea reportedly succeeds in purchasing from China 20 tons of tributyl phosphate (TBP), which is used to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel.

North Korea decides to lift the freeze on its nuclear facilities and orders IAEA inspectors to leave the country.

IAEA announces North Korea moved 1,000 fresh nuclear fuel rods to a storage facility at the Yongbyon reactor site.

President Bush identifies North Korea as a key threat to the U.S. and its allies in a National Security Directive on missile defense.

January 2003: U.S. agrees to direct talks with North Korea to resolve questions about its nuclear program.

North Korea announces it is pulling out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treay (NPT) and rebuffs demands that it allow a return of U.N. inspectors.

U.S. indicates it would consider energy aid to North Korea if it abandons its nuclear weapon program.

North Korea pledges to South Korea not to produce nuclear weapons.

U.S. spy satellites see trucks in North Korea that appear to be moving 8,000 spent fuel rods from storage.

February 2003: North Korea announces it has restarted its nuclear facilities.

IAEA declares North Korea in non-compliance with its inspection obligations and sends the issue to the U.N. Security Council.

U.S. spy satellites show a steady stream of activity around North Korea's plutonium reprocessing plant. The activity indicates preparation to activate the facility.

April 2003: U.S., Britain and France fail to induce the U.N. Security Council to criticize North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons, due to Russian and Chinese opposition.

During three-way talks with China and the U.S., a North Korean official says North Korea has nuclear weapons, and that most of the 8,000 spent fuel rods have been reprocessed.

U.S. rejects North Korea's proposal to end its nuclear weapon program only after receiving U.S. concessions.

May 2003: North Korea nullifies a 1992 agreement with South Korea to keep the peninsula free of nuclear weapons.

June 2003: After a visit to North Korea, Congressman Curt Weldon says North Korea admits having nuclear weapons and plans to build more.

North Korea announces plans to build nuclear weapons in an attempt to decrease the size of its conventional military.

The C.I.A. reportedly believes that North Korea is developing technology to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on missiles.

July 2003: IAEA declares North Korea "the most immediate and most serious threat to the nuclear nonproliferation regime."

August 2003: First six-party talks with U.S., China, South Korea, Russia and Japan; North Korea reportedly announces that it intends to test a nuclear weapon.

October 2003: New intelligence reportedly estimates that North Korea may have produced one, two, or more new nuclear weapons.

U.S. reportedly says it will give a written guarantee, to be signed by the 6 nations involved in the negotiations, not to attack North Korea if it takes steps toward abandoning its nuclear weapon program.

A German national is charged with exporting aluminum tubing for North Korea=s uranium enrichment program.

November 2003: North Korea says it would give up its nuclear weapons, cease testing and exporting missiles, and submit to international inspections in exchange for a written security guarantee, economic compensation, and a promise by the U.S. not to hinder its economic development.

December 2003: All work on the nuclear power project in North Korea, promised under the 1994 Agreed Framework, is suspended for one year.

North Korea says it will freeze its nuclear facilities if the U.S. removes it from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring countries, lifts sanctions and provides energy aid.

North Korea reportedly rejects a U.S. proposal for verifiable and irrevocable dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program in return for security assurances.

February 2004: A.Q. Khan's confession reopens speculation that a 1998 Pakistani weapon test may have involved North Korea. American military jets sampled the air after the test and found traces of plutonium, but Pakistan says all its bombs are fueled with HEU.

Second six-nation talks end inconclusively, with North Korea willing to dismantle its nuclear program on terms yet to be reached, provided it can retain a civilian nuclear program. North Korea continues to deny a uranium enrichment program.

March 2004: A C.I.A. classified report is said to conclude that North Korea probably received from the A.Q. Khan nuclear network a comprehensive nuclear package, similar to that received by Libya, which included all the equipment and technology it needed to produce uranium-based nuclear weapons.