At 06:13 PM 3/1/2003 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>Contrary to the agreement, construction of the LWRs is far behind
>schedule. The first reactor is not expected to reach completion until at
>least 2008 if there are no further delays, even though the 1994
>agreement specified that both reactors would be built by 2003. The
>holdup has prompted North Korea to take bold actions hoping to keep the
>project on target. The first such action took place in 1998 when North
>Korea test fired a Taepo-Dong-1 missile
This was obviously a highly intelligent and efficient means of speeding up
reactor construction.
I mean, I would laugh out loud at this, Doug, if you weren't actually
quoting this stuff in seriousness.
which resulted in the project
>being even further delayed. But this action did not directly violate the
>agreement. Even as recently as February 2002, Secretary of State Colin
>Powell stated that North Korea has so far "stay[ed] within the
>agreement."
This is pure Barbara Streisand.
The agreement specifically states that the DPRK is not to build nuclear
weapons. We now know that the DPRK has been assembling nukes since the
late 1990's. Colin Powell was either taken out of context, or else lying
to a very specific audience.
The fact that the yellowtimes could even suggest that the DPRK has upheld
its agreement tells you all you need to know about the quality of their
analysis.
JDG - Yellow, Maru.
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