Why did Pakistan supply N. Korea with nukes?

[BornagainDUer]

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's statement that his country's former top scientist shipped nuclear technology to North Korea has reinforced US claims that Pyongyang has an enriched uranium programme, the United States State Department has said.

Musharraf says A Q Khan transferred centrifuges to N Korea
The US has been saying that North Korea needs to dismantle its nuclear programmes -- the plutonium-based programme as well as the highly enriched uranium-based programme, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

"So, I think that President Musharraf's comments concerning provision of centrifuges, centrifuge parts, as well as feed stock for those centrifuges reinforces the idea that there is a highly enriched uranium programme" in North Korea, he told reporters in Washington on Thursday.

Ex-colleague spills beans on A Q Khan
"I don't think that this really changes anything from our perspective because we've always said that they (North Korea) have a highly enriched uranium programme," he added.

www.rediff.com/news/2005/aug/26nuke.htm

Then bribe members of the 9/11 Commission to keep their link to Atta quiet...


Monday, March 13 2006 - 9/11 Commission

Allegations of Bribes to 9/11 Commission - Pakistan


The 9/11 Commission made "dramatic changes" to its final report to omit information about the role of Pakistan, according to The Friday Times, a Pakistani weekly. After learning that the report would contain damaging revelations, the Pakistani government dispatched lobbyists to Washington to influence the 9/11 Commission, and may have even paid bribes to Commission members or their staff, the weekly says, citing an official at the Pakistani Foreign Office. “The disclosure sheds doubt on the integrity and honesty of the members of the 9/11 Inquiry Commission and above all on the authenticity of the information in their final report,” according to one source cited by the weekly.

The story was picked up yesterday by The Telegraph of Calcutta, India and is now shooting around the blogosphere. We cannot vouch for its veracity, but we can guess at the sort of information that both the US and the Pakistani government might have wanted to omit from The 9/11 Commission Report:

For example, prior to Sept. 11 the chief of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI allegedly approved a $100,000 wire transfer to a certain Mohamed Atta. Yet the same ISI chief, Mahmud Ahmed, was in Washington for a working visit to his counterparts in the US government for more than a week prior to Sept. 11. On the morning of 9/11 itself, he was having breakfast at the Capitol with the future congressional investigators of the September 11th events. These alleged investigators, Porter Goss and Bob Graham, somehow failed to mention anything about the Pakistani connection in their report, in the same way that the 9/11 Commission later closed its eyes to the same facts. Were bribes really necessary to whitewash all this? In reality, the "Pakistani Connection" actually leads back to the US intelligence behemoth. For the full background, be sure to read "The Pakistani ISI" appendix to the "Justice for 9/11" Attorney General complaint.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Maybe North Korea offered the right price for them.

[HereSince1628]

3. Yes, money, and also I think the N.Koreans sent missle technology

to Pakistan. IIRC the Pakistani delegation was in North Korean the day Bush declared it part of the axis of (or access to?) evil.

[htuttle]

2. I thought they traded for missile technology?

I thought I remembered reading that NK's missile program was quite a bit ahead of Pakistan's, mostly due to China's help over the years. So NK and Pakistan just traded what they had to each other.