Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Korea Marketing at the Nuke Bazaar, thanks to Jimmy Carter et seq

North Korea Advertises Its Nukes Syria has already been a customer.By GORDON G. CHANG North Korea yesterday tested a second nuclear weapon at its underground site. What does Kim Jong Il want? ... the international community to recognize his nation as a nuclear weapons state...to destabilize the South Korean gov't... additional assistance from international donors... bolster the popularity of his regime among hungry North Koreans -- and the senior generals whose backing he needs.... Yet both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have put North Korea on the back burner....(NK sales talk). North Korea appears set to go into high gear and merchandise its nuclear arsenal....last nuclear test, in October 2006, was...a dud. ...Kim's technicians had to detonate another device to validate their designs...Tehran is an important customer...because the Islamic Republic has, in all probability, funded at least one acquirer of Kim's nuclear technology....Syria ...a reactor of North Korean design. The Israelis destroyed that secret facility in September 2007 .... Iranians ...are somewhere between one to three years to a working nuclear device of their own....Tehran's technicians were again witnesses to yesterday's test. There is no greater threat to the U.S. than the proliferation of nuclear weapons to dangerous and hostile regimes.
The Bush administration...never made North Korea pay any price...(for being part of the Axis of Evil. It remains to be seen) what Washington will do in the coming days. After the early-April test of a long-range missile, Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's part-time envoy for North Korea, said he was "relaxed" and even suggested direct talks with Pyongyang, which is what the North always wanted from Washington. The feckless American response was a big green light for Kim to continue his destabilizing behavior.... It soon will be able to deliver a nuclear device to the American homeland by... a rusting merchant ship or... a pickup truck. Another danger is the dissemination of nuclear technology to hostile states and their terrorist allies.This is a consequential moment. North Korea is taking on the world, and we have no choice but to respond. ****Jimmy Carter "negotiated" a vacuous standstill for Clinton in 1994; Bush did little to nothing but label. Obama based on the above is not promising but the jury is still out. It's a further test ( altho", when the early exams have been failed, it isn't usual to pick up and pass the course. ***

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