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To: J.B.C. who wrote (55642)	9/13/2004 10:47:44 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

NEWS: Bush Guilty of N.Korean 'Nuclear Nightmare' Mon Sep 13, 2004 01:28 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration of letting a "nuclear nightmare" develop by refusing to deal with North Korea when it first came to office. In a telephone interview with The New York Times, published on its Web Site late Sunday, Kerry said the current fear that North Korea may be preparing to test a plutonium bomb was a consequence of President Bush's preoccupation with Iraq. The newspaper said the interview was initiated by the Massachusetts Democrat, who is running against Bush in November's U.S. presidential election. While officials were still trying determine whether recent activity at a potential nuclear test site in North Korea indicated an upcoming test, Kerry said North Korea's threatening such an action was a sign of failed diplomacy. "I think that this is one of the most serious failures and challenges to the security of the United States, and it really underscores the way in which George Bush talks the game but doesn't deliver," the Times quoted Kerry as saying. "They have taken their eye off the real ball," Kerry said of the Bush administration. "They took it off in Afghanistan and shifted it to Iraq. They took it off in North Korea and shifted it to Iraq. They took it off to Russia, and the nuclear materials there, and shifted it to Iraq." Calling the current nuclear situation in North Korea "a nuclear nightmare," Kerry directly accused Bush of leaving the United States more vulnerable to North Korea, the Times said.