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Originally posted by sgtclub
There is about a 1% chance this statement is true. I highly doubt it is the case that they stopped during that period and then, magically, started again after Bush takes over. But I don't want to argue this with you because we will go round and round and none of us really has a good handle on the facts.
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Even Hank and Spanky will tell you that you are wrong about this. See, e.g.,
this Congressional report from 2003, noting the distinction:
- The Bush Administration disclosed on October 16, 2002, that North Korea had revealed to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly in Pyongyang that it was conducting a secret nuclear weapons program based on the process of uranium enrichment. North Korea admitted the program in response to U.S. evidence presented by Kelly. The program is based on the process of uranium enrichment, in contrast to North Korea’s pre-1995 nuclear program based on plutonium reprocessing.
With the distinction between the uranium and plutonium processing in mind, check out
this summary. (After the U.S. revealed North Korea's uranium activities and pulled out of the deal, North Korea started up again with the plutonium.)
I agree with you that Clinton's policy would have been an egregious failure if North Korea had continued to enrich plutonium.
