gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Gadsen)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2005-02-10 02:04 pm

Well, we found the WMD

They're in North Korea

North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.

North Korea's harshly worded pronouncement posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation disarmament talks.

"We ... have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North)," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The agency's report used the word "nukes" in its English-language dispatch.


This is the same North Korea that Bush has dismissed for his entire term, the same state that he seems to think he can negotiate with.

How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
The dispute has been going on a lot longer than two years, any way you want to look at it. President Clinton almost authorized a preemptive strike on North Korea before he left office.

Re: How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm normally opposed to aggressive military action, knowing full well the cost of such things, but I make an exception for the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." That nation is evil, Kin Jong Il is evil, and they deserve to have the United States come down on them hard.

Re: How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
They aren't just evil, they are insane.

Re: How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I forget who said this, but:
"KJI is one white cat away from being a Bond Villain."

Re: How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I love it!

Re: How quickly they forget...

[identity profile] pauldrye.livejournal.com 2005-02-11 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Bond villains normally have style.