Yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) asked the Director of Defense Intelligence (DIA) Agency Admiral Lowell Jacoby whether or not “North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device?” Admiral Jacoby replied: “My assessment is that…
North Korea has shut down its 5 MWe reactor at Yongbyon, probably to unload spent fuel rods that will be reprocessed to recover plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Senior North Korean officials recently informed Selig Harrison of the…
The State Department has a released an e-journal entitled, Today’s Nuclear Equation. In addition to a digital copy of the “Duck and Cover” video, the e-journal contains a weird smattering of Administration propaganda (including articles from POTUS, DeSutter, Rademaker and…
David Sanger and Bill Broad have a summary of the North Korea UF6 story based on recent interviews with administration officials and foreign diplomats. The big revelation: Libyan officials have surrendered financial ledgers that reveal front companies for the AQ…
You’re thinking: Shit, we have options in North Korea? Wrapping up her tour of Asia, Condi Rice said we do … sort of. Actually, in Tokyo she demanded that North Korea return to the Six-Party Talks, then warned that North…
These UF6 containers are from Hungary. Remember that allegation that North Korea sold Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) to Libya? Remember how the IAEA attempted to reproduce the results, finding the evidence inconclusive? Yeah, well, it turns out that the evidence was…
Condi says what Don wants. Does he dress her, too? Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post has an interesting article on U.S. rhetoric toward North Korea. After North Korea declared that it possessed nuclear weapons, I asked two questions: do…
Long Island’s Newsday reports on the contents of a recent intelligence community-wide assessment of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. The estimates run from the CIA (2-3 bombs) to DIA (12-15 bombs, “tops”), with DOE in between. Newsday reports that discrepancies “reflect…
The Detroit Free-Press has a helpful FAQ on Iran and North Korea with one significant factual error: Q: Is the United States threatened by a North Korean weapon? A: Yes. North Korea has missiles that could hit Alaska and Hawaii.…
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement to the Korean Central News Agency declaring North Korea’s nuclear status: We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT and have manufactured nukes for self-defence…
