To: sandintoes who wrote (3375 ) 2/2/2005 1:29:48 PM From: jmhollen Respond to of 3389 I wonder what "..Hillary the HO, Tawdry Teddy, the Ketchup Klown, and Joe-the-whining-Schmoe Biden.." plan to do about this - go to North Korea and give that little fat fart, Kim Jong-Il, an "Official Clitwit-BJ"...!?! US says new evidence of N. Korea nuclear exports (Reuters) 2 February 2005 WASHINGTON - The United States has developed new evidence which bolsters earlier indications that North Korea is the source of nuclear material exported to Libya, US officials said on Wednesday. The new data also involves more proof that Pyongyang reprocessed all 8,000 spent fuel rods from a nuclear facility at Yongbyon, enough to fuel about a half dozen nuclear weapons, officials told Reuters. Experts said the new information appeared to confirm what was previously known rather than to break new ground. The United States and other countries have been urging Pyongyang to return multilateral talks on its nuclear programs. North Korea has been watching for President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address on Wednesday night for signs of US interest in engaging with the reclusive communist state. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that nine months ago, international inspectors came up with the first evidence that North Korea may have provided Libya with nearly two tons of uranium hexaflouride, the material that can be fed into nuclear centrifuges and enriched into bomb fuel. Libya surrendered its huge cask of the highly toxic material to the United States when it dismantled its nuclear program last year, it said. Now, intelligence officials say, extensive testing conducted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee over the last several months has concluded that the material did not originate in Pakistan or other suspect countries, and one official said that “with a certainty of 90 percent or better, this stuff’s from North Korea,” the article said. The newspaper said it is unclear if there are any dissenting views in the government, though some outside experts have accused the administration of overstating intelligence on North Korea. Officials cautioned the newspaper that the analysis of the uranium had been hampered by the fact that the United States has no sample of known North Korean uranium for comparison with the Libyan material. The study was done by eliminating other possible sources of uranium, a result that is less certain than the nuclear equivalent of matching DNA samples, according to the article. khaleejtimes.com .