Noord-Korea hervat kernwapenprogramma.

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 18:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zo, bedankt voor jullie aandacht.

Ik vond er nog geen topic over, dus wilde ik jullie er even op attent maken dat Noord-Korea wat wapeninspecteurs het land uit geflikkert heeft en binnen enkele maanden kan beschikken over een atoombom.

Wat vinden we daar nou van?

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Van 19.00 - 21.00 Verenigde Staten en bondgenoten vs Iraq
Van 21.00- 23.00 Verenigde Staten+bondgenoten vs Noord Korea
Na 23.00 herhalingen van de mooiste momenten van de dag en nabeschouwingen!

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"Whipe them out... All of them!"

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 19:00 schreef CeeJee het volgende:
Kijk vooral op www.kcna.co.jp. Bijna lachwekkend, als er niet zoveel Noord-Koreanen aan het verhongeren zijn terwijl de Geliefde Leider zijn atoombom in elkaar schroeft.

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 19:00 schreef CeeJee het volgende:
Kijk vooral op www.kcna.co.jp. Bijna lachwekkend, als er niet zoveel Noord-Koreanen aan het verhongeren zijn terwijl de Geliefde Leider zijn atoombom in elkaar schroeft.

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punt 2 ik vind Kim Yong-Il een eikel. vrijwel net zo erg als Hussein.

eigenlijk zou er een wereldwijd pact moeten worden gesloten dat het oprichten van een dictatuur verbiedt. langer dan 4 of hooguit jaar regeren moet toch eigenlijk niet door de beugel kunnen

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 18:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Rusland ook.
China ook.
Zuid-Afrika ook.
India ook.
Pakistan ook.
Israel ook.
Frankrijk ook.
Engeland ook.
En Brazilie is een heel eind.

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 19:04 schreef -ScuL- het volgende:

eigenlijk zou er een wereldwijd pact moeten worden gesloten dat het oprichten van een dictatuur verbiedt. langer dan 4 of hooguit jaar regeren moet toch eigenlijk niet door de beugel kunnen

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[Femke Halsema-mode]
In Irak is absoluut geen sprake van een dictatuur. Mag ik jullie erop wijzen dat Saddam Hoessein gekozen is door zijn burgers. Ik vind het erg stuitend dat jullie hem een dictator vinden[/Femke Halsema-mode]

sterven aan de blast van een nuke.

is tenminste overwhelming

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 18:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Rusland ook.
China ook.
Zuid-Afrika ook.
India ook.
Pakistan ook.
Israel ook.
Frankrijk ook.
Engeland ook.
En Brazilie is een heel eind.

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Hier staat het artikel van CNN.

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The Evil Behind the Axis?
A scientist who built Pakistan's nuclear bomb may have helped North Korea, Iraq and Iran. The national hero denies he's 'a madman.'

UNITED NATIONS -- If one man sits at the nuclear fulcrum of the three countries President Bush calls the "axis of evil," it may well be Abdul Qadeer Khan.

The 66-year-old metallurgist is considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. He is a national hero at home, where hospitals bear his name and children sing his praises. U.S. and other Western officials do not. They say Khan is the only scientist known to be linked to the alleged efforts of North Korea, Iraq and Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

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"We know he's been [to North Korea] at least 13 times, perhaps more," Gaurav Kampani, a nuclear expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, said of Khan. "It's obviously been sanctioned by institutions within the Pakistani government."

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Khan has received all three. When he ran Pakistan's bomb-building program, he reported directly to the nation's leader and had free-flowing funds at his disposal. U.S. officials say Khan owns several palatial residences. And he is revered not only at home, where he is hailed for putting Pakistan on an equal nuclear footing with rival India, but also in much of the Muslim world, where he is lionized as the man who built the "Islamic bomb."

One-Upmanship Begins

It began when India tested a nuclear device in 1974 and Pakistan immediately sought to catch up. Khan kick-started the country's nuclear program the following year, allegedly providing copied plans for gas centrifuges from the Urenco uranium enrichment facility in the Netherlands, where he had worked. He also obtained a list of suppliers that would prove invaluable. Khan ultimately was tried for treason in absentia in the Netherlands, but the case was dropped when prosecutors failed to properly deliver a summons.

"He stole the blueprints," said David Kay, who headed nuclear weapons evaluation programs at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna from 1982 to 1992. "But he's not a cat burglar who snatched some plans. He's a very good scientist."

Khan took charge of Pakistan's uranium enrichment program in 1976. Using the Urenco designs, his team secretly built gas centrifuges at the A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories in Kahuta, a heavily guarded complex near Islamabad. A separate agency, Pakistan's Atomic Energy Organization, built the weapons using what U.S. officials believe were plans obtained from China.

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Khan has proudly recounted how his team procured key components openly from Western companies that were willing to help -- and by subterfuge when they weren't. Khan said in an interview with Pakistan's Defense Journal that Western governments tried to prevent his nation from developing nuclear weapons but were foiled by the greed of their own companies.

"Many suppliers approached us with the details of the machinery and with figures and numbers of instruments and materials," he said. "They begged us to purchase their goods."

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But international officials worry that Pakistan, through Khan, has spread that nuclear knowledge to other countries. The strongest evidence appears in North Korea.

U.S. officials say Khan initiated talks with the North Koreans in 1992 to obtain 10 to 12 medium-range Nodong ballistic missiles to help Pakistan boost its military profile against India. The Americans say the deal was finalized during a secret 1993 visit to North Korea by Benazir Bhutto, then Pakistan's prime minister.

In April 1998, Pakistan test-fired a knockoff Nodong missile renamed the Ghauri I, which can carry a nuclear payload deep into India. A month later, North Koreans attended Pakistan's first nuclear tests, according to European diplomats.

In exchange for the missiles, U.S. and other officials say, Pakistan gave North Korea designs for Khan's gas centrifuges and other assistance needed to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. After a tense diplomatic standoff with the Clinton administration, North Korea promised to freeze its nuclear program in 1994. It recently admitted that it has a uranium enrichment program, however, and it has reopened nuclear facilities that were closed under the 1994 agreement. Khan has also played a notable role in Iran's nuclear development.

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However, U.S. officials suspected that the exchanges with other nations continued, especially after U.S. spy satellites spotted Pakistani military cargo planes picking up missile parts in North Korea last July. The North told U.S. officials that the parts were for surface-to-air missiles, not for a missile that could deliver a nuclear weapon.

In June 2001, Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage all but named Khan when he expressed concern that "people who were employed by the nuclear agency and have retired" might be spreading nuclear technology to North Korea.

After North Korea confessed last fall that it had resumed its nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell again confronted Pakistan's president about illegal assistance.

"Musharraf assured me, as he has previously, that Pakistan is not doing anything of that nature," Powell said, though he noted that they did not speak of Pakistan's past contacts with North Korea. "The past is the past. I am more concerned about what is going on now. We have a new relationship with Pakistan."

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[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door VAK op 06-01-2003 19:16]

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Op maandag 6 januari 2003 19:09 schreef neliz123 het volgende:
Hmmmm, ik ben eerder "bang" voor Amerika met z'n atoombommen met hun meest domme leider ooit... Bush

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Die zal echt Nederland aan gaan vallen ja.