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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (71563)	10/10/2006 8:07:48 AM
From: Yulya	Respond to of 110194

[But they were not working on a nuclear bomb. It's an important distinction. N. Korea only started working on the bomb again after Bush cancelled the treaty.] In October 1999, the unclassified version of the "Perry Report" on US North Korea policy noted that "despite the critical achievement of a verified freeze on plutonium production at Yongbyon under the Agreed Framework, the policy review team has serious concerns about possible continuing nuclear weapons-related work in the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]." The following month, a US Congressional report charged that "There is significant evidence that undeclared nuclear weapons development activity continues, including efforts to acquire uranium enrichment technologies and recent nuclear-related high explosive tests. This means that the US cannot discount the possibility that North Korea could produce additional nuclear weapons outside of the constraints imposed by the 1994 Agreed Framework." "What they were doing, as it turns out, they were cheating," Albright admitted to NBC's "Meet the Press." Early in the Clinton administration plans were drawn up to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities until Jimmy Carter got involved. By signing an agreement that everyone knew would be cheated on by North Korea as a substitute for taking action, left any successor no viable options. Clinton/Carter "peace in our time" (subtext: and war in someone else's)