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To: Les H who wrote (4671)	1/9/2003 3:16:01 PM
From: Softechie	Respond to of 29600

White House/Iraq/Korea/Oil -2: Says Baghdad Hides Weapons 09 Jan 13:58 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Bush administration said Thursday that the fact that the U.N. weapons inspectors have found no evidence of Iraqi programs to build and store weapons of mass destruction actually makes a military strike on Iraq more likely. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said this was because the U.S. knows for a fact that Iraq has such weapons and the abscence of their evidence shows Baghdad is continuing to hide them. In addition, Fleischer announced that the State Department has given a North Korean official at the U.N. permission to travel to New Mexico to meet with former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson. The North Korean official asked for the meeting. Fleischer also said the administration is continuing to monitor energy prices but sees no reason at the moment to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for additional supplies of crude oil. (MORE) Dow Jones Newswires 01-09-03 1358ET