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To: H-Man who wrote (3540)	4/4/2007 2:22:38 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "BS" [exactly same 'solution'] What is 'B.S.'? Re: "1. I dont recall seeing that we are giving them nuclear tech," Correct. Our government is not doing that now, and we did not do that before. (What we are giving them is millions and millions in FREE HEATING OIL... and releasing their frozen bank accounts --- despite the likely involvement of those accounts in the laundering of counterfeit 'super bills'... counterfeit American currency. And, of course, the South Koreans are giving them far more.) Re: "2. We have the chinese involved;" (WHOO-HAH... I feel so safe now, since it was the Chinese who gave them plutonium to begin with.) :-( Re: "Important because when the NK's began violating the carter/clinton agreement (1996)" Technically I don't believe that violated the LETTER of that agreement. IMO, that agreement was flawed because it only addressed their efforts to build nuclear weapons via use of the PLUTONIUM they acquired from the Chinese early in the Reagan administration's first term.... (In that regard, it provided for monitoring of their reactors to ensure that spent fuel rods weren't reprocessed to extract even more plutonium....) However, the treaty did not ban what they LATER threatened to do, which was mount a separate program to build the thousands of centrifuges that would be necessary to process enough URANIUM to extract usable amounts for a weapons program. (In THIS threat from the North Koreans, they were most likely BLUFFING us --- because it would have taken tens of billions of dollars that they do not have, and likely at least a DECADE, if not longer, before they could have produced enough uranium to build any weapons from such a program.) They were employing an old, old hard-nosed North Korean 'negotiating tactic' against us. The nuclear bomb that they fired off was a PLUTONIUM-based device, almost certainly build using some of that cache of plutonium they acquired from the Chinese... although when this dust-up occurred between the Bush admin and N.K., the Koreans took the monitoring cameras down that the International Atomic Agency was using to monitor their reactors 24 hours a day... and who knows HOW MUCH EXTRA plutonium they were able to reprocess from those fuel rods during that time that the cameras were down! Some Intelligence estimates have suggested that --- from that Chinese cache supplied back in the Reagan admin. --- they had enough usable Plutonium on-hand for at most 2 or 3, or 'a couple' of bombs, but they were possibly then able to glean enough EXTRA plutonium from their fuel rods over the past couple of years of this screw-up to enable them to make perhaps as many as a dozen... *or even '25' of so MORE* nuclear weapons**. And, of course, they have also gained a little practical knowledge now in how to do that.... :-(