More Obama lies...ignored by the MSMFollow

Several reasons, some plausible, some that require a tinfoil hat. A very obvious one is that people are scared the @#%^ out of their minds of a meltdown.

One that might require a shiny hat is that the energy market, like any other market, is controlled by capitalists out to make as much money as they possibly can, and therefore vehemently oppose development of nuclear technology.

HELLO! HELLO?! Varrus?! Can you hear me from over there? We're over HERE, talking about domestic nuclear power!! Ok... come back when you want to rejoin the conversation!!

Do you even remember when Clinton gave NK nuclear technology with their promise they wouldn't use that technology to develope weapons.

In the 1980s, North Korea accelerated its efforts to produce plutonium fuel for nuclear weapons from these facilities. International concern began to focus on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and in 1985 North Korea, under pressure, signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). North Korea completed the second reactor around 1987. It has a capacity of about five electrical megawatts, allowing annual production of seven kilograms of plutonium — enough for one or two nuclear weapons. In the mid-1990s, North Korea began building two larger reactors with respective power of 50 and 200 electrical megawatts. When the Agreed Framework shut down these plants, they stood about two years from completion. Satellite photographs taken in 1990 indicate North Korea has constructed a structure at Yongbyon used to separate plutonium from nuclear fuel — a critical stage in weaponizing plutonium.

In 1989, North Korea shut down its working reactor for two months — probably to remove the nuclear fuel rods, from which plutonium is reprocessed. U.S. intelligence reports generally estimate that North Korea extracted 12-14 kilograms of plutonium from the rods, enough for one or two nuclear weapons. Japanese and South Korean intelligence estimates claim North Korea may have extracted more plutonium during reactor slowdowns in 1990 and 1991, giving the country up to 24 kilograms of plutonium. North Korea may have acquired additional plutonium by smuggling it out of Russia. A 1993 report in the German magazine Stern cited a Russian counterintelligence report claiming that North Korea had bought kilograms of Russian plutonium on the black market.

In the early 1990s, the CIA concluded that North Korea had effectively joined the nuclear club by building one or possibly two weapons from plutonium it produced before 1992.
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CIA, untitled estimate provided to Congress, November 19, 2002. According to the estimate, "The U.S. has been concerned about North Korea's desire for nuclear weapons and has assessed since the early 1990s that the North has one or possibly two weapons using plutonium it produced prior to 1992."

The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

And to be fair, the CIA report about North Korea's nuke history probably didn't have Rumsfeld or Cheney deliberately skewing data and demanding results for their own conclusion.

Locked,




Actually Saddam was unable/unwilling to prove he had disposed of his WMD's. That's a far cry from what you people are stating. Nevermind the fact that Saddam broke the ceasefire.

And had you people not made such a fuss about Iraq W would "probably" have taken care of NK as well.

Xsarus,



I'm sorry where in this statement does is say get on you knees and praise allah?