BBC News (2002): US grants North Korea nuclear funds

[BattyDem]

Wednesday, 3 April, 2002

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.s...

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[Homer Wells]

1. HMMMMMM?

Very interesting

K&R

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Kick and recommended!

n/t.

[Sinti]

3. Dear god - then people wonder why some of us think he's f'ing things

up on purpose.

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.

HELLO!! How stupid can you get.

[BattyDem]

4. a kick for those who missed it the first time

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Was that Clinton's fault, Mr. Bush?

Photo: Nuclear Weapons Archive

[noamnety]

6. This could make a nice set.

[gully]

7. Excellent find!

K n R

[magellan]

8. Holy kimchi!!

Bush** WAIVED the requirement that NK allow the weapons inspectors back in??? BRILLIANT! He just LET Kim remove the fuel rods from the old reactors!

What a total FUCK-UP to the nth degree Dimson is!!

K&R

On edit: send this to Keith!

[mod mom]

9. un fucking believable-even for this crowd!

[spanone]

10. My favorite line from the article.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".

This man has not been held accountable for one utterance from his ignorant lips.

[alfredo]

11. Great find!!!!

[Bozita]

12. He won't TALK to 'em, but he'll PAY 'em! -- Recommended

Good stuff.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. Rumsfeld's company gets a 200 mil contract to sell reactors to N.K.

in 2000, and then we give them the funds in 2002? Wouldn't that be charming if the two things were connected? If we not only gave Rumsfeld the contract, but also paid for it with public money? I can only hope.

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. And never forget the association of ***Rev. MOON*** with the Bush family

and the North Korean government. Money talks and the Bushies listen and follow, wagging their tails.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=V...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://alternet.org/story/29054 /
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.gorenfeld.net /
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/mo...

[robinlynne]

15. way to go W.

[K8-EEE]

16. Def NOT Next On Fox News

Bada bing! They gotta get their story straight on this one -- I just heard Condi on CNN claiming totally the opposite to what they have done.