regardless of this,
IRAN still the next target? What would be the excuse this time, IRAN has illegal
nukes? Why US still not invading North Korea even though they have openly
admitted having NUKES?
From: "Assalamu Aleikum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:34
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Subject: NORTH KOREA HAS NUKES, TELLS ANTICHRIST TO
GET LOST
N.Korea Says It Has Nukes, Shuns Talks
Islam Online
February 10, 2005
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-02/10/article01.shtml
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photos:
File photo of North Korea's Yongbyon-1 nuclear power
plant. (Reuters)
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-02/10/images/pic01.jpg
Bush said "Iran" with a nuclear weapon would be a
"very destabilizing" force. (Reuters)
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PYONGYANG, February 10 (IslamOnline.net & News
Agencies) - North Korea announced Thursday, February
10, for the first time it possesses nuclear weapons to
protect itself against an increasingly hostile United
States and suspended participation in the six-way
talks on dismantling its nuclear program.
"We had already taken the resolute action of pulling
out of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and
have manufactured nukes to cope with the Bush
administration's evermore undisguised policy to
isolate and stifle the DPRK," Reuters quoted North
Korean as saying in a statement.
The move raised the stakes in the two-year-old nuclear
confrontation between the communist country and the
Bush administration and sent shockwaves among
neighboring capitals.
"If in fact this is the case, then the North Koreans
are only deepening their isolation because everyone
... (has) been very clear that there needs to be no
nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula," US Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice said, in an interview
Thursday with RTL television during a visit to
Luxembourg, the current EU president, according to the
Washington Post.
The North Korean statement carried by the state-run
Korean Central News Agency, said the communist state
possessed nuclear weapons in self-defense against the
US attempts to overthrow its government.
The statement, however, stressed that the North Korean
nuclear arsenal was purely defensive, adding that
Pyongyang still wanted to resort to dialogue to rid
the Korean peninsula of atomic weapons.
It was the first official response to Bush's second
presidential term and his team, especially Rice who
branded Pyongyang as an "outpost of tyranny" during
her confirmation hearing last month, according to
Reuters.
"The true intention of the second-term Bush
administration is not only to further its policy to
isolate and stifle the DPRK pursued by the first-term
office but to escalate it," the Foreign Ministry said.
North Korea accuses Washington of planning an
invasion, reinforcing its 37,000 troops already in
South Korea with B-1 and B-52 bombers that have been
ordered to prepare for deployment to the Korean
peninsula.
Threatening Iran
Bush has branded North Korea, Iran and Iraq - before
the US invasion-turned-occupation of the Arab country
- an "axis of evil", stepping up pressures on both
Pyonyang and Tehran to dismantle their nuclear
programs under claims of being used for military
purposes.
The Korean admission came in defiance to Bush who said
Wednesday that Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a
"very destabilizing" force and that it was important
for the world to speak with one voice against Tehran's
program.
"The Iranians just need to know that the free world is
working together to send a very clear message: Don't
develop a nuclear weapon," Bush said.
No Talks
North Korea further said it had no intention to engage
in new rounds of the six-way talks on dismantling its
nuclear program amid bellicose signs from the Bush
administration.
"We have wanted the six-party talks but we are
compelled to suspend our participation in the talks
for an indefinite period till we have recognized that
there is justification for us to attend the talks,"
the Foreign Ministry's statement said, adding it would
wait for conditions conducive to positive results.
"The Bush administration termed the DPRK, its dialogue
partner, an outpost of tyranny, putting into the shade
its hostile policy, and totally rejected it," the
ministry said.
"This deprived the DPRK of any justification to
participate in the six-party talks," it said.
The United States, China, South Korea, Japan and
Russia have held three rounds of talks with North
Korea since August 2003 and have been trying to coax
Pyongyang back to the negotiations.
The nuclear standoff erupted in October 2002 when the
United States accused North Korea of operating a
program based on highly enriched uranium, violating a
1994 arms control agreement. Pyongyang denied that
charge but restarted a plutonium program.
Energy-starved North Korea has already said it needed
to re-start nuclear activities to make up for a
shortfall in energy supplies after a Washington-led
coalition cut off fuel shipments late last year.
The shipments were suspended after Washington said in
October that Pyongyang admitted running a secret
nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994
agreement.
Under the agreement, the United States provided fuel
aid while North Korea halted its nuclear program.
After the fuel shipments were suspended, North Korea
resumed activity at Yongbyon, a long-mothballed
facility capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.
North Korea has withdrawn from the Treaty on the
Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT).
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-02/10/article01.shtml
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