[A-List] US imperialism: North Korea

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne,

I agree with Macdonald on Pat Buchanan. Every enemy of my enemy
is not necessarily my friend. Some may be, like you dispite major
disagreements, but not all.

Here is some other related information.

Sabri

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Independent.co.uk

Rumsfeld warns North Korea

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington

24 December 2002


Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, bluntly warned North
Korea yesterday not to use Washington's focus on Iraq to press
ahead with its own nuclear weapons, saying America had ample
resources to wage two wars at once.

Delivering the Bush administration's bluntest comments yet after
the announcement by Pyongyang that it was removing United Nations
monitoring cameras and seals at a mothballed nuclear reactor, Mr
Rumsfeld stated baldly: "If they do, it would be a mistake."

"We are capable of fighting two major regional foreign
conflicts," he insisted at a Pentagon briefing. "We are capable
of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeating in the ...
other. Let there be no doubt about it."

As Mr Rumsfeld spoke, Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, was
completing consultations with South Korea, China, Japan and
Russia over the growing crisis with North Korea.

The North said at the weekend it was reactivating its plant at
Yongbyon to generate electricity. But South Korea and the US
dismissed the explanation, saying that 8,000 spent fuel rods were
of no use for power generation but could serve for the extraction
of plutonium. Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, said Pyongyang would be able to manufacture
"five or six" new bombs within months.

Mr Rumsfeld said: "They don't need a nuclear power plant, their
power grid couldn't absorb that. What's going on in that country
is a tragedy."

Unlike its stance on Iraq, Washington has said that it wants a
peaceful resolution with North Korea. Pyongyang admitted in
October it had a secret nuclear weapons programme, involving
enriched uranium. In response, the United States halted fuel
shipments to the impoverished country.

Article at:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=36
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