Wednesday, October 15, 2003

North Korea may have already produced the bomb.


New intelligence estimates that North Korea may have produced one or two nuclear weapons in recent months — or perhaps more — have immersed the administration in another internal debate about the quality of intelligence about illegal weapons.

With President Bush just days from embarking on his longest foray in Asia, some of his advisers say it is possible that North Korea is telling the truth about having turned 8,000 nuclear fuel rods into enough weapons-grade plutonium for several warheads.


No fucking shit.

There's a rebuttal, though.

If you're on the West Coast, I'd advise you to start building those bomb shelters. Okay, so I'm being paranoid, but so are they. I understand the caution the United States is taking with this by "downplaying" it, however, this is one case where I wouldn't err on the side of caution...much in the way we did with Iraq. North Korea is sick, wounded, and starving. They need the money. What happens when they sell their nukes on the black market to the highest bidder, say a rouge state or a terrorist group? We need to consider these options and their consequences.

The UN's silence on this matter is somewhat disquieting. To be honest, the entire world's silence on this matter is disquieting, but it seems the entire world is distracted at the moment.

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