Clinton,Carter and N.Korea`s Nukes

[White_Male_Canada]

Diplomacy,appeasement and consequences

October 22, 1994

NY Times

U.S. and North Korea Sign Pact to End Nuclear Dispute: Many Details are Kept Secret.

"Under the broad agreement concluded here late Monday, North Korea will freeze its nuclear activities, [and] renounce any ambition to become a nuclear power..." In addition, the Times trumpeted what the North Koreans would get in return for these two concessions.

"In exchange, an international consortium will replace North Korea's current graphite nuclear reactors, which are considered less dangerous because they produce little weapons grade plutonium." (little,meaning enough to produce up to 100 weapons)

North Korean chief negotiator , Kang Sok Ju, " said the agreement, once put into effect, would resolve "all questions of the so-called nuclear weapons development by North Korea" that have raised "such unfounded concerns and suspicions. We have neither the intention nor the plan to develop nuclear weapons,"

"Former President Jimmy Carter held talks in Pyongyang with North Korea's dictator Kim Il Sung, that defused the crisis and led to new negotiations with the United States." For his part, Carter went on record earlier in the year in meetings with the North Koreans to say that "I personally believe the crisis is over." What did the North Korean leader (the current dictator's father, Kim Il Sung) think of Carter's efforts? "He told me," said Carter, that "he was very grateful I had gone [to North Korea], and thought it [Carter's effort to make peace and help give the North Koreans light-water reactors] was a very fine accomplishment."

"Bill Clinton will be the biggest winner, a master negotiator on a critical security issue." :lol:

NY Times

Oct. 17, 2002

Confronted by new American intelligence, North Korea has admitted that it has been conducting a major clandestine nuclear weapons development program for the past several years

[White_Male_Canada]

Report to the US House of Representatives, Prediction as of November 1999:


"Through the provision of two light water reactors [LWRs] under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT]."

"If the 1994 Agreed Framework is implemented and two LWRs are eventually built and operated in North Korea, the reactors could produce close to 500 kilograms of plutonium in spent reactor fuel each year; enough for nearly 100 bombs annually if North Korea decides to break its obligations and reprocess the material."

"Although the 1994 Agreed Framework was essentially aimed at eliminating North Korea's ability to make nuclear weapons, there is significant evidence that nuclear weapons development is continuing, including its efforts to acquire uranium enrichment technologies and its nuclear-related high explosive tests."

"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion."

[White_Male_Canada]

So Clinton, pressed by Jimmy Carter, cut a deal with the North Koreans that allowed them to keep the spent fuel rods from the two nuclear reacotrs given to them ,free,by Clinton -- the same material for which critics blame the Bush administration -- and then watched as they continued to test long-range missiles, which the Clinton administration apparently failed to address. They also left verification out of the Agreed Framework, which made the entire agreement a fantasy. Well before the end of the Clinton administration, the North Koreans had started clandestine uranium-enrichment for weapons. Meanwhile, Clinton and Albright did nothing !