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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (129024)7/17/2008 11:12:40 AM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
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"The Bush administration accuses North Korea of breaking the 1994 Agreed Framework, while ignoring the fact the United States broke the treaty since the day it was signed. The US officials involved in negotiating the treaty have admitted that they had no intention of abiding by the treaty because they believed - and hoped - that North Korea would have collapsed by 2003 when the two nuclear power plants were to be completed.

The US negotiators believed that by denying North Korea the electric power, about 2000 MWe that North Korea's nuclear reactors would have produced, for several years, North Korea's economy would collapse and Kim Jong Il's regime would fall. The 1994 Agreement has indeed created acute shortages of electric power, in part due to the shutting down of the reactors and in part, due to the natural floods that inundated coal mines, thus cutting off coals to North Korea's coal-burning thermal power generators. The Agreement called for the United States to provide a token amount of heavy oil that was barely enough to generate 20% of the nuclear electric power North Korea had to forego.

The 1994 Agreement called for lifting the US economic sanctions against North Korea and normalization of relations. It called for cessation of hostile actions and of threats of nuclear attacks. The United States not only failed to make good on these promises, but on the contrary, intensified hostile actions and has made open threats of nuclear "preemptive" strikes on North Korea. Furthermore, the United States has leaned on Japan, South Korea, and other allies to cut back on any form of assistance to North Korea. For example, the United States forbade South Korea to provide electric power to North Korea. "
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