On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:09:08 -0600, Tim Daneliuk
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Tim Daneliuk wrote:

Nate Perkins wrote:
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Tim,

Very well reasoned and well-written response.


Under the previous administration the North Korean program was
stopped dead in its tracks. Dunno about Iran. But, no evidence
of NPT violations by Iran has emrged. Thus far if Iran has any
violations, they have kept them well-hidden while being quite
bold about their actions within the NPT limitations.

Another logical fallacy. The absence of proof is not the same
thing as the absence of the action in question. It is impossible
to believe that the Koreans were "stopped dead in their tracks"
under the previous administration - this would mean that they
spooled up an entire nuclear weapons program from whole cloth
in only the last 4 years - this is very unlikely.

Actually, it would have had to have happened even faster, they were
already making rumblings about having nukes 2 years ago. Fact is, while
the West was shipping food and aid and supporting the building of
"non-weapon" capable nuclear facilities, the NK's were continuing their
pursuit of nuclear weapons and improving their ballistic missile
technology. They couldn't have spooled up their missile program in a short
two years either (NoDong shot over Japan).




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