Well, we found the WMD

[gridlore]

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.

Comments

How quickly they forget...

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

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.

It's been a problem for a while...

[murbin.livejournal.com]

The problem with North Korea and Nukes is not a new one. A lot of the current problems can be traced back to the really horrible treaty former President Carter agreed to when he wandered into North Korea during the Clinton Years. Even the most die-hard Clinton bashers give his foreign policy team enough credit not to have screwed the pooch that badly.