U.S. may ease North Korea sanctions

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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16556749.htm

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is considering action to free some North Korean bank accounts as part of a deal to restart the stalled talks on eliminating the isolated communist regime's nuclear weapons. snip

If the deal comes off, it would mark a dramatic turnaround in U.S. relations with North Korea, which President Bush labeled as part of an "axis of evil" five years ago, along with Iran and Iraq under the late Saddam Hussein.

But North Korea is in a far stronger negotiating position than it was in 2002, when Bush halted heavy fuel oil shipments.

North Korea has since become a greater threat to regional security. Since 2002, Pyongyang has harvested an estimated 88 pounds of plutonium from 16,000 spent fuel rods removed from Yongbyon - enough for as many as a dozen nuclear weapons. It also ended a moratorium on long-range missile tests and in October conducted an underground nuclear test.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. Here's an interesting news articles.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1908571.stm

It comes from the BBC (4-3-02) it's titled US grants N Korea nuclear funds. Bush gave 95 million of our tax dollars to help fund North Koreas nuclear program.

Here's a quote from the article, "In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors". ...Bush WAIVED the requirements to have inspectors monitor North Korea's nuclear activities.


Remember how North Korea was telling us they'd nuke us if we went into Iraq? Then they didn't do anything to us...It's because Bush paid them off. ...And that's what he's doing now.