Imperialist Watch
2006-10-10 12:52:42 UTC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm
Wednesday, 3 April, 2002
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as
part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear
programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two
proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea
while the reactors are being built.
In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's
requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden
away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.
President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security
interests of the United States".
...
The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a
critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors
are completed they may not be tamper-proof.
"These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make
weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the
means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring,"
Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P.
Huntington
Wednesday, 3 April, 2002
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as
part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear
programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two
proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea
while the reactors are being built.
In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's
requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden
away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.
President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security
interests of the United States".
...
The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a
critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors
are completed they may not be tamper-proof.
"These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make
weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the
means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring,"
Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.
--
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P.
Huntington