-Caveat Lector- Let's not forget that it was Bill Clinton who gave the funds and technology for N. Korea to build two Nuke Plants and caused conservatives to cry "treason". Yet just this year GW Bush continued the program and EXPANDED it for four more Nuke Plants, six total. And not a peep out of the Conservatives. Well, this Conservative will say it.....TREASON! Bush has pushed through almost every single item of the Clinton Agenda, and American Conservatives are fast asleep. Wake up! ---------------------- N. Korea 'armed to the teeth'
U.S. diplomat denounces 'evil', 'missile peddling' regime Staff and wires SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is "armed to the teeth" with weapons of mass destruction and busy selling its weapons and missile technology to any state willing to pay for it, a top U.S. official has warned. Denouncing the North Korean leadership as "an evil regime," U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said that unless the secretive communist state halted its weapons exports and development of weapons of mass destruction it would risk losing what international assistance it was currently receiving. Speaking in the South Korean capital Thursday, Bolton said North Korea was "the world's foremost peddler of ballistic missile-related equipment, components, materials, and technical expertise." Among the recipients of North Korean missile exports were "notable rogue state clients such as Syria, Libya and Iran," he told a meeting of the Korean American Association. Furthermore he said, North Korea had active programs to develop chemical, biological and nuclear arms. There is, he said, "little doubt" that North Korea has both an active chemical weapons program and "one of the most robust offensive bioweapons programs on Earth." However, despite such tough talk he added that Washington remained open to dialogue with Pyongyang. Choice "North Korea today faces a choice," Bolton said. "If North Korea wants to have a brighter future, it needs to fundamentally shift the way it operates at home and abroad." His speech came at a delicate time for diplomacy on the Korean peninsula with officials from North and South Korea meeting at the same time across town in another Seoul hotel to discuss the development of economic ties. Meanwhile, on Wednesday during a visit to Japan, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Richard Armitage signaled that Washington was planning to send an envoy to Pyongyang in the near future. "We have received a variety of messages from North Korea in recent months and it seems to me that the general thrust is that they would welcome a visit by assistant secretary (James) Kelly," Armitage told a news conference. His comments followed a brief meeting last month between U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Brunei. Their brief informal chat over coffee was the highest-level contact between the U.S. and North Korea since a landmark visit to Pyongyang by Powell's predecessor Madeleine Albright in October 2000. Axis speech 'factually correct' In January, U.S. President George W. Bush included North Korea, along with Iran and Iraq, in what he called an "axis of evil" that threatened world peace. The move sparked a fierce reaction from North Korea, sending relations between Pyongyang and Washington plummeting and effectively freezing dialogue between the two sides. Referring to that speech Bolton said the "axis" reference was "more than a rhetorical flourish -- it was factually correct." "First, the characteristics of the three countries' leadership are much the same: the leaders feel only they are important, not the people. Indeed, in North Korea, the people can starve as long as the leadership is well fed," he said. "Second, there is a hard connection between these regimes -- an 'axis' along which flow dangerous weapons and dangerous technology." Bolton said that unless North Korea began a speedy reform process it would risk losing a key 1994 agreement with a U.S.-led consortium to build two light-water nuclear reactors -- a project that is already well behind schedule. The project was originally agreed with the previous Clinton administration in return for the North agreeing to put a freeze on its own nuclear programs and mothball reactors capable of producing weapons grade material. However, the Bush administration has accused the North of stalling on the verification process and says that unless Pyongyang cooperates it will withdraw funding for the project. For its part North Korea has rejected proposed visits by international weapons inspectors saying there must first be "substantial progress" in the construction of the two new reactors. The Associated Press & Reuters contributed to this report. ------------------------ -iNFoWaRZ "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -Mark Twain <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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