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02 Mar 2005 10:07:00 PM |
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North Korea Sells Uranium To Libya |
Bruces and Brewsters:
Blind Freddy could tell us that the US is trying to justify an invasion
of North Korea at a time it will determine.
The basic reason for the US animus is that:
1) NK is not under US economic dominion; and
2) NK has a nuclear weapons program.
plus
3) NK ballistic weapons have a range long enough to hit the US
mainland.
Now for most of the rest of the world these are not sufficient causes
for war, so the US is seeking to convince public opinion that NK has
links to "terrorists" (as defined by the USA) and/or other "rouge
states" (also as defined by the USA). It's the same strategy they
used with us re: Iraq.
As previously, truth will not be a barrier to US strategy.
Consequently we have the US recently "proving" sales of fissilable
material from NK to Libya. This "proof" was contradicted by the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
"Michael Green and William Tobey of the National Security Agency (NSA)
[recently]visited Asia to brief Japanese, South Korean and Chinese
officials on a U.S. intelligence assessment tying uranium hexafluoride
found in Libya to North Korea. Although hexafluoride is not fissile
material, it can become so if it is processed through nuclear
centrifuges. Extensive testing on the material was done at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, leading to the conclusion, one American official
said, of an origin in North Korea "with a certainty of 90 percent or
better."
Western media repeated the claim that the analysis had "proved" a link
with North Korea, therefore showing the nation to be engaged in the
proliferation of nuclear materials.
However, the process used to arrive at this conclusion actually failed
to establish a North Korean connection.
U.S. scientists compared the rarest of uranium's three isotopes,
U-234, in the Libyan uranium with samples from a variety of known
sources. The percentage of U-234 in uranium varies by regional source,
and therefore it can be a means of identifying the country of origin.
The problem is that U.S. scientists failed to match the Libyan uranium
to any of their samples. Lacking uranium from North Korea, by a process
of elimination it was concluded that the source must be North Korea
since other sources were ruled out.
But U.S. scientists also did not have samples from a number of other
nations, including Pakistan, a nation that would surely be a far more
likely source than North Korea, given its assistance to Libya's
nuclear program.
To complicate matters further, the percentage of U-234 in uranium can
vary widely even in the same mine or in a single sample of uranium ore.
The International Atomic Energy Agency conducted tests on the same
material and concluded that the evidence was inconclusive. An official
for the agency pointed out, "In order to come to this conclusion, you
need a sample from North Korea and no one has a uranium sample from
North Korea. The Pakistanis won't allow any samples of their UF6
either."
Another official, requesting anonymity, said that it would be hard to
believe that the material came from North Korea. Fueling the agency's
skepticism, the container holding the Libyan uranium hexafluoride
originated in Pakistan. It was apparent that the Bush Administration
was once again playing fast and loose with the truth in order to
further its political objectives, and the visit by the two NSA
officials to Asia was an obvious effort to sway regional allies to
support harsher measures against the DPRK."
US Subversion of Diplomacy and North Korea's Phantom Nukes
by Gregory Elich
www.globalresearch.ca 18 February 2005
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| User: "Cmd Buzz Corey" |
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| Title: Re: North Korea Sells Uranium To Libya |
03 Mar 2005 05:47:43 PM |
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wrote:
Bruces and Brewsters:
Blind Freddy could tell us that the US is trying to justify an invasion
of North Korea at a time it will determine.
No other country can match the nuclear weapons power of the U.S. All the
U.S. needs to do is tell these little wanna-be nuclear power countries
that if they build nuclear weapons and ever use even one of them against
the U.S. or it's interest, that their little country will cease to exists.
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