North Korea Nuke crisis: made in the U.S.A.North Korea's defiant announcement that it had conducted an atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. test on October 9, and that it would continue to carry out additional tests despite global condemnation, should have surprised no one. The fact that the communist regime in Pyongyang has been aggressively building a nuclear weapons program over the past two decades is no secret. What seems to be forgotten is that much of North Korea's weapons program that is now causing such world concern has been built with aid provided first by the Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law and then by the Bush administration. In 1994, President Clinton announced a great diplomatic breakthrough, his so-called Agreed Framework, with Communist North Korea. Under the new compact, brokered by former President Jimmy Carter, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il
"Dear Leader" redirects here. For the band, see Dear Leader (band). For other heads of state, see List of current heads of state and government. promised to freeze his nuclear program in return for two light-water nuclear reactors and 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil annually from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . This was nuclear extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with , plain and simple, but President Clinton announced that this treacherous agreement was "good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world." Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Madeleine Korbel Albright (born May 15 1937) was the first woman to become United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 5 1996 and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate 99-0. She was sworn in on January 23 1997. flew off to Pyongyang for a photo-op in which she clinked champagne glasses with Kim, in a toast to the wonderful new relationship. President George W. Bush continued the Clinton aid program, even after publicly condemning North Korea as a terrorist sponsor in his famous "axis of evil" speech. THE NEW AMERICAN has repeatedly exposed the treason treason, legal term for various acts of disloyalty. The English law, first clearly stated in the Statute of Treasons (1350), originally distinguished high treason from petit (or petty) treason. Petit treason was the murder of one's lawful superior, e.g. and insanity of this program of assisting North Korea's dictatorship, which is our most openly, virulently, self-avowed enemy. Now, having helped create the poison, the current administration proposes a toxic antidote: a strengthened United Nations. "We will work with the United Nations," said President Bush in an October 11 White House press conference. "We'll support our allies in the region. And together, we will ensure that North Korea understands the consequences if it continues down its current path." |
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