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Donald Rumsfeld was director of company making nuke reactors for N. Korea! (english) xx 12:07pm Sat Jan 18 '03 (Modified on 1:22pm Tue Jan 21 '03) article#229391 Making money from Arming North Korea Orginal story here! http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id= 229314&group=webcast ABB was a major partner in the consortium that sold N. Korea those nuclear reactors. http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabase&db=/global/ABBZH/ abbzh250.nsf&v=c&e=us&c= 316DCEEDCA12D32E4125686C00433604 "ABB to deliver systems, equipment to North Korean nuclear plants --US $ 200 million in orders awarded under multi-government framework agreement" Who was on the ABB Board of Directors before becoming Secretary of Defense? Donald Rumsfeld! http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabase&db=/global/abbzh/ abbzh250.nsf&v= 553E&e=us&c=D0E90B053BD5AA65C12569F8002A7CB5 Just a few links :-<br> <a href="http://www.abb.com/";>The website of ABB</a>, an engineering firm. The website includes a search facility. <br> <a href="http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/manager/Donald_Rumsfel d.htm"> According to this page</a>, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of ABB from 2000- 2001. Also mentioned <a href="http://www.nato.int/usa/cv/rumsfeld.html";>here</a> (on NATO's website) and <a href="http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/rumsfeld.html";> here </a> (US Trade Deficit Review Commission).<br> <a href="http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shinpo/";> A page about Shinpo nuclear power plant, North Korea.</a> The plant was based on a design by ABB.<br> <a href="http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1996/pr96070.html";> DOE approves US involvement in the construction of reactors in North Korea.</a> ABB is mentioned as designing two nuclear power plants in North Korea, third paragraph down.<br> <a href="http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BL13Dg02.html";> Investing in North Korea: as easy as ABB?</a> From the Asia Times.<br> add your own comments Links for above corrected. (english) xx 12:19pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229394 Just a few links :-<br> <a href="http://www.abb.com/";>The website of ABB</a>, an engineering firm. The website includes a search facility. <br> <a href="http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/manager/Donald_Rumsfel d.htm"> According to this page</a>, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of ABB from 2000- 2001. Also mentioned http://www.nato.int/usa/cv/rumsfeld.html here (on NATO's website) and http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/rumsfeld.html here (US Trade Deficit Review Commission). http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shinpo/ A page about Shinpo nuclear power plant, North Korea. The plant was based on a design by ABB.<br> http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1996/pr96070.html DOE approves US involvement in the construction of reactors in North Korea.</a> ABB is mentioned as designing two nuclear power plants in North Korea, third paragraph down.<br> http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BL13Dg02.html Investing in North Korea: as easy as ABB? From the Asia Times. Bush Seeks $3.5 Million for Group Building N. (english) xx 12:29pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229395 Arming the Axis of Evil http://quote.bloomberg.com/ fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20World% 20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_topworld&T=markets_box.ht&s2 =ad_right1_windex&bt=ad_position1 _windex&box=ad_box_all&tag=worldnews&middle=ad_frame2 _windex&s=APiiJLhTcQnVzaCBT 01/17 17:52 Bush Seeks $3.5 Million for Group Building N. Korean Reactors By Todd Zeranski Washington, Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush is seeking $3.5 million for the international consortium that continues to build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, even as the U.S. confronts the communist regime over nuclear arms. The funding, which must be approved by Congress, would go toward the New York-based Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's administrative funding, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. The money wouldn't fund reactor construction, he said. ``We're not prejudging the decisions on the organization's future,'' Boucher told reporters. ``Proposals for funds are intended to maintain the flexibility we need to achieve our global nonproliferation goals.'' The sum is the U.S. share of KEDO's $17 million operating budget, including its 40 workers in New York and eight in North Korea, KEDO spokesman Brian Kremer said. As many as 1,500 construction workers remain in Kumho, in northeastern North Korea, pouring the concrete foundations for the reactors, which won't be completed for several years, he said. The 1994 Agreed Framework created the organization, committing the U.S., Japan and South Korea to build the reactors and deliver enough fuel oil for North Korea's energy needs until the facilities were ready. South Korea is paying for most of the reactor project. In exchange, North Korea would scrap reactors tied to a nuclear arms effort and allow international inspectors to verify compliance. Two new 1,000-megawatt, light-water reactors, valued at $4.6 billion, would provide enough power to light 2 million U.S. homes, or about 20 percent of North Korea's energy. The pledge shows the U.S. is still pursuing its commitments to North Korea even as the two countries are squaring off over U.S. allegations North Korea essentially annulled the agreement by covertly enriching uranium for weapons use. Inspectors Sent Home North Korea sent home two International Atomic Energy Agency officials who were monitoring the country's compliance with the agreement and withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This week North Korea reacted angrily to U.S. offers to resume dialogue if the regime abandons its nuclear weapons program, alleging the Bush administration is threatening war. The principal KEDO members, now the U.S., South Korea, Japan and the European Union, decided to end shipments of fuel oil soon after U.S. envoy James Kelly's October meeting with North Korean officials at which the Bush administration said it learned of the regime's deception. http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/10/19/114657 "Through the provision of two light water reactors [LWRs] under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT]," the Advisory Group warned. The report explained: "If the 1994 Agreed Framework is implemented and two LWRs are eventually built and operated in North Korea, the reactors could produce close to 500 kilograms of plutonium in spent reactor fuel each year; enough for nearly 100 bombs annually if North Korea decides to break its obligations and reprocess the material." Back in april he gave them fund also. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm US grants N Korea nuclear funds 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. "These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review. One more time, these should work (english) xx 12:33pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229396 Just a few links http://www.abb.com/ The website of ABB an engineering firm. The website includes a search facility. http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/manager/Donald_Rumsfeld.htm According to this page, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of ABB from 2000-2001. Also mentioned http://www.nato.int/usa/cv/rumsfeld.html Here (on NATO's website) and http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/rumsfeld.html here(US Trade Deficit Review Commission http://www.power- technology.com/projects/shinpo/ A page about Shinpo nuclear power plant, North Korea.</a> The plant was based on a design by ABB. http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1996/pr96070.html DOE approves US involvement in the construction of reactors in North Korea. ABB is mentioned as designing two nuclear power plants in North Korea, third paragraph down. http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BL13Dg02.html Investing in North Korea: as easy as ABB? From the Asia Times. Let them have Nukes! Axis of pretexts. (english) xx 4:39pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229427 Terrorist nations will develop the capability to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told a Senate panel Tuesday. "Let there be no doubt, it is only a matter of time before terrorist states, armed with weapons of mass destruction, develop the capability to deliver those weapons to U.S. cities, giving them the ability to try to hold America hostage to nuclear blackmail," Rumsfeld told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. "They inevitably will get their hands on them, and they will not hesitate to use them." Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea are developing such weapons of mass destruction and will supply them to terrorists, to which they already are linked, the defense secretary said. ========================================== ======= Thats why he help build them Nuke plants so they can build hundreds now!. Thats also why, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2275249.stm UK 'sells' bomb material to Iran DTI is accused of approving controversial exports British officials have approved the export of key components needed to make nuclear weapons to Iran and other countries known to be developing such weapons. An investigation by BBC Radio 4 programme File on Four will disclose that the Department of Trade and Industry allowed a quantity of the metal, Beryllium, to be sold to Iran last year. That metal is needed to make nuclear bombs. ========================================== ============== But don't worry we are offering a police state as a soultion, Give us your rights. Capture of website Showing ABB got contract! (english) xx 9:04pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#229991 Capture of website Showing ABB got contract! http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabase&db=/global/ABBZH/abbzh250.nsf&v=c&e=us&c= 316DCEEDCA12D32E4125686C00433604 Capture showing Rumsfeld worked for them! (english) xx 9:15pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#229994 Capture showing Rumsfeld worked for them! http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabase&db=/global/abbzh/abbzh250.nsf&v= 553E&e=us&c=D0E90B053BD5AA65C12569F8002A7CB5 North Korea Aid Will Provide Plutonium (english) xx 9:37pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#230002 http://web.archive.org/web/20011217031521/http://policy.house.gov /news/releases/2000/0414nk.htm News From . . . The House Policy Committee Christopher Cox, Chairman Clinton-Gore North Korea Aid Will Provide Plutonium for Nuclear Bombs, Scientists Warn Chart Showing Increased Aid and Increased Missile Range North Korea Advisory Group WASHINGTON (Friday, April 14, 2000)--Two nuclear scientists told the House Policy Committee this week that nuclear reactors being built with U.S. taxpayer funds for the Stalinist dictatorship in North Korea will soon give the regime enough plutonium to make more than 60 bombs a year. The scientists who briefed the House Leaders were Dr. Victor Gilinsky, a former Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Ford and Carter administrations and former head of the Physical Sciences Department at the RAND Corporation, and Dr. William R. Graham, a former Science Advisor to President Reagan and Deputy Administrator of NASA. The plutonium provided by two nuclear reactors being built for North Korea at the urging of the Clinton-Gore administration, the scientists said, would dramatically increase North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons. The scientists took strong exception to the Clinton- Gore administration claim that the reactors are somehow "proliferation resistant"-that their construction did not pose a serious risk. That is most assuredly not the case, the scientists said. "The light water reactors could produce about 500 kilograms of plutonium annually," Dr. Gilinsky said. "They are so much larger than the facilities North Korea stopped building, they will actually produce more plutonium than the gas graphite plants they will replace." Gilinsky also cited a study by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences that concluded, "plutonium of virtually any isotopic composition can be used to make nuclear weapons." The administration's argument that the light water reactors do not produce "weapons-grade plutonium" is misleading. First, the light water reactors can in fact be operated to produce essentially weapons-grade plutonium. Second, the plutonium normally produced in power reactors can be used to make powerful nuclear weapons. Some additional steps would need to be taken to employ the plutonium normally produced in light water reactors, but, as Dr. Graham pointed out, these steps would not pose an insuperable hurdle for the North Koreans. The U.S. successfully tested a warhead using such material in 1962. The scientists also pointed out that North Korea's primitive power grid cannot possibly handle the enormous generation capacity of these two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors-indicating North Korea's reason for demanding them from the U.S. is not to obtain electrical power. If that were their concern, they would have asked for help with conventional electric plants, which they could have obtained more quickly and more easily. The North Koreans' objective may well have been to gain the plutonium they will produce. "Giving U.S. foreign aid to North Korea is foolhardy. Using it to build nuclear plants is dangerous-and giving Kim Jong Il plutonium to build nuclear bombs is madness," said Policy Chairman Christopher Cox. House report: these plants make weapons! (english) xx 9:48pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#230004 This is a report from the House Policy Committee, saying these plants can make nuke weapons. They have removed now that Bush has done the exact same thing, but now its ok? the Pdf can be had from an internet database here. http://web.archive.org/web/20011215120100/http://policy.house.gov /news/releases/2000/cgnk.pdf Local copy of pdf document above. (english) xx 9:56pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#230007 Download attached file: cgnk.pdf (mimetype: application/pdf ) April, 2000. House report saying the Nuke plants the US is building in North Korea can be use to make nukes. One more report from House Policy Committee (english) xx 10:21pm Mon Jan 20 '03 comment#230010 http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/easec/dprk0802.htm The Nuclear Nightmare An essential premise behind providing the Kim Jong-Il regime with light water nuclear reactors is that North Korea can be trusted not to use the plutonium produced from these reactors. It is a faulty premise indeed. Not only can the new light-water reactors be used to extract plutonium, they will actually produce significantly more nuclear materials that can be used for weapons than the graphite-moderated nuclear plants they are meant to replace. The U.S.-funded light water reactors in North Korea will accumulate plutonium in spent fuel at the rate of about 17, 300 oz. per year-- enough to produce 65 nuclear bombs a year. The facilities North Korea was building on its own would have produced enough plutonium for a dozen bombs a year. The Clinton-Gore administration attempts to gloss over the horrible proliferation risk from its nuclear aid to North Korea by arguing that light-water reactors will not produce "weapons-grade" plutonium. But as William R. Graham, Science Advisor to President Reagan from 1986 to 1989, has explained, the term "weapons grade" does not refer to the usefulness of the plutonium for building a bomb, but rather to the relative safety of its handling by workers in the course of manufacturing a bomb. If one does not mind that some workers may become ill or die from radiation exposure, the plutonium will function perfectly well in a weapon. "The isotopic purity that defines 'weapons-grade plutonium' depends only on how soon the fuel is removed," Dr. Graham adds, and not on the "avowed purpose of the reactor." The policy of providing nuclear power plants to North Korea will produce plutonium for hundreds of nuclear bombs. This is not merely dangerous, it is mad. ========================================== ======= But again if Bush does it its A-OK! How The United States Illegally Armed Saddam. (english) xx 12:23pm Tue Jan 21 '03 comment#230126 How The United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein: Iraqgate Scandal That Involved President George Bush, James Baker And Donald Rumsfeld" Links to iraqgate. http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraqgate.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00158.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo0919.html This ia also covered in the Hidden Wars of Desert Storm Video. Real media Video about the True story of the Gulf war. RealVideo: stream with RealPlayer http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/gulfwarhidden.ram or download RM file (38.4 mebibytes) http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/gulfwarhidden.rm If streaming diesn't work because its too busy try downloading it to your computer. More info at the link http://www.hiddenwars.com Gulf War: Business deal gone bad! (english) xx 1:22pm Tue Jan 21 '03 comment#230143 http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Chin111402/chin11140 2.html The unfinished business between Saddam Hussein and George H.W. Bush By Larry Chin Online Journal Contributing Editor November 14, 2002â??In a much-publicized CNN interview on September 18, 2002, former President and CIA Director George H.W. Bush declared that he "hates" Saddam Hussein. This canard-filled propaganda display was designed to cloak the historical fact that the elder Bush "loved" Saddam Husseinâ??as a key Middle East ally, a CIA asset, and partner in numerous illegal business partnerships. Indeed, the recalcitrant Saddam Hussein poses a grave threat, i.e., to the secrecy that cloaks the Bush family's involvement in some of the most unsavory episodes in American history. Forwarded for your information. 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