The crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme deepened yesterday as the North claimed it had made enough plutonium for six atomic bombs
OMG...6!!! As opposed to how many fricken dirty bombs in this world held by extremists? I'm quaking in fear. Let Georgie and (I drink to much) Rumsfield handle it....which means more death to people who are either brown or yellow.
US intelligence agencies are now trying to determine whether the boast is true or merely another bluff by the reclusive Stalinist regime.
Oh oh, there's that line again: U.S. intlligence. This article has it's own funny. Again, unconfirmed information as to a "boast" made by a taunting "dictatorship" that doesn't want McDonald's in their land.
Either way, the declaration has pushed the US President a step nearer deciding whether to accede to North Korea's demand for direct negotiations - and thus drop his previous insistence that he would never bow to "nuclear blackmail" - or to accelerate plans for a military strike against the North's nuclear installations.
I'm going to take a guess here: I predict (using the force) a....uh.....MILITARY STRIKE in the near future.
That spectre was raised yesterday by William Perry, Defence Secretary under President Clinton, when he told The Washington Post that the Bush administration was "losing control" of the situation.
Oh oh, when Bush "loses control"....we know what happens next, don't we kiddies? Yep...more brown or yellow people who don't play ball with the U.S. are going to be accused of being "evil rogue nations". More bombs and bullets.
"The nuclear programme now under way in North Korea poses an imminent danger of nuclear weapons being detonated in American cities," Mr Perry said, adding that he had reached that conclusion after talks with Bush officials in Washington, and with senior figures in China and South Korea.
Exactly. Especially after the U.S. experience with Iraq and it's WoMD being "detonated in American cities". * snort snort *
He now fears that the North is not only close to a nuclear test to show the world it is a nuclear power, but also that it could sell a weapon to a terrorist group for use against the US.
Yes, exactly...especially with countries like...China and India that sell them too. God damn it, don't you know that it's ONLY the U.S.'s job on this planet to sell and control weapon sales!!! It's called "capitalism". Where's my Monopoly board...I miss playing the game.
China, reckoned to have the greatest leverage over of Kim Jong Il's renegade state...
"China RECKONED"???? What the hell? The entire population of China has now initiated a Texas accent and usage or words????
The CIA has long suspected that North Korea had one or two nuclear devices...
And I suspect that the CIA is once again....in error. Like the time when it completey missed well-known islamnic extremists enter the country, take aviation classes while being observed, and completey dropping the ball (in concert with other agencies) when such said "extremists and terrorists" flew airplanes in to a few buildings. This is an agency with a very trustworthy reputation and excellent record...*cough* (JFK...JFK...JFK).
Recent atmospheric tests for a gas that is normally given off when used fuel rods ...
Or in my case...I test my gas with a bic lighter...
The best course, says Mr Perry, is "coercive diplomacy" whereby "you have to offer something, but you have to have an iron fist behind your offer." For the moment however, Mr Bush seems unwilling to offer anything at all.
Yes, the solution. I'm sure the Emperor...I mean George Bush Jr. is going to seduce Luke Skywalker...uh er...I mean offer Kim Jong an ultimatium...I mean...OPTION: "Either suck our...Uh...do things the AMERICAN way or will screw you in the...I mean, er...bomb the crap out of your country".
My Solution: There is none. North Korea with develope or want to develope weapons regardless. Much like the U.S. who has them, in a time of crissis there is potential the N. Korea will use and or sell them. But then again? Who has been selling weapons to the world (yes even those capable of MD) and has used such in the past? Yep...I thought so.
It's about WHO controls the arms market, and right now...that's the U.S. They don't want small countries entering the market. That's for China and the U.S. to control right now.