A Blast From The Past

[im10ashus]

US grants N Korea nuclear funds

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".

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm

[LSK]

1. and then theres this GEM

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/09/1052280441337.html

The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, sat on the board of a company that three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts of build nuclear weapons.

Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $US200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. He sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $US190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush Administration.

The sale of the nuclear technology was a high-profile contract. ABB's then chief executive, Goran Lindahl, visited North Korea in 1999

[im10ashus]

3. So, as usual, we have our own government to blame.

Unbelievable. Or, maybe, not so unbelievable. Nothing surprises me these days.

[LSparkle]

2. OMG -- somebody tell K.Olbermann ...

He's already onto the fact that some of the equipment North Korea is using for its uranium enrichment was sold to them by a company in which RUMMY was invested ...

[im10ashus]

4. I e-mailed him.

Wonder if he will read it. :shrug: