From 4/3/2002
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.
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.
President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".
Dwight Meredith adds:
GWB felt it was in the vital national security interests of the US to waive the inspection requirement for aid to North Korea.
In addition, North Korea's nuclear power plant is being built by the Swiss company ABB. Prior to 2001, one member of the board of directors of ABB was one Donald Rumsfeld.
Cheney sells spare parts to Iraq. Rumsfeld helps North Korea with its nuclear industry. Our ally Pakistan provided North Korea with nuclear technology. Our ally Russia is building a nuclear power plant in Iran.
What is the adminsitrations response to all of that? Invade Iraq of course .