Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (358540)	2/13/2003 7:59:13 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769667

Clinton's Idiocy Never Dies Last October, the United States announced it had presented North Korea with evidence it was pursuing a program to enrich uranium, a critical first step to developing nuclear weapons. As a result, the Bush administration cut off heavy-fuel shipments the Clinton administration had agreed in 1994 to supply Pyongyang until the "international community" finished building North Korea two light-water reactors. In return for the shipments and reactors, the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il falsely claimed he would shut down another nuclear program, one that could lead to plutonium-based nuclear weapons. In December, North Korea removed monitoring devices for that mothballed program and asked IAEA inspectors to leave the country. Satellite imagery and other evidence indicates North Korea has restarted its plutonium program, specifically a reactor at the Yongbyong research site that Pyongyang says is for electricity to replace the fuel oil shipments. That reactor is less than one-tenth the size that nuclear experts say will generate a practical amount of electricity, however. Copyright 2003 by United Press International.