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To: Win Smith who wrote (250951)12/7/2007 3:04:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Neither NK or the US followed the agreement totally, but NK did keep its plutonium under international supervision, until brilliant W came along and blew the whole thing out of the water. Great accomplishment, that. He showed them.

Boy have you drunk the kool-aid! They kept their plutonium under international supervision, did they? I'm sure that comforted everybody when the US discovered in 2003 that the North Koreans had an entirely separate and hidden nuclear weapons program using enriched uranium, which had been kept up all through the 1990s in total violation of the 1994 treaty! So they took all that was offered, including two nuclear-powered generators, and developed nuclear weapons anyway! What a genius treaty it was that Bush "destroyed".

Here is the timeline of their activities, from that notorious right-wing rag, CNN:

cnn.com