BREAKING: North Korea admits to having nukes

[Bluebear]

As DOCTOR Rice tours Europe and warns about Iran:

BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:58 a.m. ET Feb. 10, 2005

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea publicly admitted Thursday for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and said it wouldn’t return to six-nation talks aimed at getting it to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

Diplomats have said that North Korea has acknowledged having nuclear arms in private talks, but this is the first time the communist government has said so directly to the public.

“We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) and have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration’s ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

DPRK refers to the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

North Korea’s “nuclear weapons will remain (a) nuclear deterrent for self-defense under any circumstances,” the ministry said. “The present reality proves that only powerful strength can protect justice and truth.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6944560/

[Sean Reynolds]

1. In other news, the world is round.

[absolutezero]

5. how dare you!

everyone knows it was created as a flat world in six days, and all other bodies in the universe orbit it

[LeftCoast]

20. His fact is opressing your religious belief!

Why that's just an outrage! :)

[clover]

2. question:

do i recall reading that rumsfeld and/or cheney have had their greedy little claws in the process of arming north korea?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Yep rummy was on the board of directions of the company

that sold the reactors that CANNOT produce nuclear material for bombs. They fired back again their older plant that was meant for producing nukes after George decided to cut all food aid to Korea in 2001, after george got sworn in... anything but Clinton was their policy

[clover]

11. thank you: by the way

i've heard reports of the use of napalm in iraq, maybe afghanistan, too. i get the feeling that it's like an old blue-light special with arms dealers, who have dramatically slashed prices on aging weapons, chemical and otherwise, clearing out the back rooms of armories before their products have degraded beyond use over time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. this was the charge during and after WW I

the merchants of death... same corporations are still involved, believe it or not

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Gee back in October there was a shitake mushroom

yep my friend above is right, in other news, the world is round and the sun rises in the east....

All I can say is oh boy

[Seeing Red]

4. PREPARE THE INVASION!

...it's time to spread some more freedom and democracy!

[Bluebear]

7. Oh, does Korea have oil?

And welcome to DU!

[chicagojoe]

8. So now President Shithead can get his girl Rice

working on pissing off North Korea, so they can use their nukes.
What a wonderful world!!!

[AndyTiedye]

17. Boosh** Says "What, Me Worry?" NK's Nukes Can Only Hit the West Coast

Nothing but blue states out here. Boosh** would love to get us nuked.
:nuke::nuke::scared::scared:

[Tux]

23. Hey

At least they actually have WMD.

[chicagojoe]

24. Yes they do, and the pathetic Dubya

will somehow give them reason to use them.

[Renew Deal]

9. I'm not sure this changes anything.

But it is another Bush fuck up.

[Skink]

12. They are off the list....

We don't attack our Nuclear friends.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. It does, the balance of power in Asia

but it changes nothing...

Also Kim is known for giving this tech around (together with Khan of Pakistani fame) so those nightmares of a terrarist using one of these things on a Western, let alone American city, are a tad more concrete now... not by much, but juat a tad more

(for the record I would be far more worried about the misisng rusian nukes and all them X-Ray machine cores)

[Renew Deal]

14. I meant that it's an open secret.

That's not a secret anymore.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. regardless this is NOT good

you think bushie boy can handle this hot potato?

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Bush probably can't even

play the game "hot potato" so why would he handle this? :scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Hey, the mental of bush playing hot potato was just

a nice one to pick, this is not a hot potato, this is beyond a hot potato potencially

[ultraist]

10. Can we win against: Iraq, Iran and Korea at the same time? WTF?

It sounds like things are heating up. He is publicly taking the defensive against BUSH. Not just saying, they have nukes in general.
We are so fucked.

“We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) and have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration’s ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency."

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Nope this is a third front

technically Iran and Iraq are the same front, as well as Afghanistan, that is why I am being nice... Iran and Iran front one, Afghanistan front two, and Korea front three.

[Bozita]

22. Bush has God on our side

God, the ultimate nuclear weapon of the uncurious.

[Dangerman]

25. Great.

Saddam has no nukes and we invade his country. North Korea HAVE nukes and what do we do? Diplomacy.

[kybob]

26. oooooooooooh myyyyyyyyyyyyyy Goooooooooooooooooood

we're all gonna fucking die!!!!!!

[KansDem]

28. Aye, that's the rub!

Saddam had no nukes and lotsa oil...we invade

North Korea has lotsa nukes and no oil...we talk

Get it?

[Emboldened Chimp]

27. Here we go again...

In the midst of rattling our sabres at a Middle Eastern country, NK comes out and says, "Hey, Bush, the real threat's over here!"

[goodboy]

29. sup, blue? Boy I'm glad bush is in there, otherwise nukular preliferation

would be rampant in the globe...the smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud...there'd be a grave and gathering threat from WMD's...axis' of evils' and outposts of tyranny would determine our foreign policy...

/sarcasm off/