From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:28:08 -0500 To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@tonto.eunet.fi> Subject: Fw: [C-I] Bush threatens DPRK, more details ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Stoller Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:56 PM Subject: [C-I] Bush threatens DPRK, more details AFP. 26 November 2001. Bush demands North Korean nuclear inspections; US seeks to clarify reports that North Korea to sell missiles to Egypt. WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush called on North Korea on Monday to permit foreign inspectors to verify that it is not producing weapons of mass destruction, and warned Pyongyang to halt foreign missile sales. Bush was asked by reporters whether he was extending his war on terrorism to states previously believed by the United States to be engaged in developing such arms. "Well, clearly in terms of North Korea, we want North Korea to allow inspectors in to determine whether or not they are," he replied. "We've had that discussion with North Korea. I made it very clear to North Korea that, in order for us to have relations with them, that we want to know, are they developing weapons of mass destruction, and they ought to stop proliferating." Washington has also expressed serious concern about North Korea's missile program, one of the few sources of foreign currency for the impoverished Stalinist state. The United States also signalled on Monday that it would ask Egypt to explain reports that it had concluded a secret deal with North Korea to buy long-range missiles. "I have to expect that we would raise with the Egyptians these reports and find out from them what they have to say about them," a senior State Department official said. South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper quoted South Korean diplomatic sources on Monday as saying the accord was secretly concluded with Egypt earlier this year. Ha'aretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported in July that North Korea sold Rodong missiles and manufacturing technology to Cairo. The Rodong has a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). JoongAng quoted an unnamed military analyst as saying: "We believe the North Koreans agreed to sell as many as 24 Rodong missiles to the Egyptian military." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ====================================================================== Via: Communist Internet eGroup: http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
