PD is right.
N Korea first violated the Non Proliferation Agreement by building a reactor specifically for producing weapons grade plutonium. They said specifically "its our right to have nuclear weapons" in response to criticism.
did people forget them lobbing a ballistic missile over Japan or what?
Clinton considered bombing this nuclear reactor and instead in 1994 they made another agreement where North Korea agreed to stop pursuing nuclear weapons programs and shut down that reactor in return for aid.
again, N Korea agreed and initiated a second program to enrich Uranium in another location which was not only a violation of both agreements, but was a pretty blatent "fuck you, we dont care"
i dont remember the timeline specifically... but does anyone remember the recent chain of events?
US- "hey you have nuclear weapons"
NK- "yes we do"
NK- "uh.... wait! No! no we dont"
NK- "ok... yes we do"
US- "ok, since you have no intention of honoring your agreements, then we will stop sending you oil"
NK- "ok, we are firing up the reactor again"
US- "hey, man... bad move"
NK- "now we are kicking out all Atomic Energy Commission monitors"
NK- "but we just need the reactor for electricity
US- "ok... we are going to have to consider stopping all aid"
NK- "Fuck you.. stopping aid is going to be considered by us to be an act of war"
NK- "we are withdrawing from the 1994 agreement because the US and its agressive policies towards NK"
NK- "we have no intention of developing weapons"
NK- "we will resume missile testing"
NK- "we want to talk and negotiate and resolve this peacefully"
NK- "the US will die in a sea of fire"
etc etc etc etc.
now what? reward them for being a defiant, dangerous, threatening, fucked up, backwards, Stalinist dictatorship that is murdering its own people by starving them to death?
time to bomb a reactor in my opinion.
Last edited by JR at Jan 23 2003, 03:00 AM
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