http://www.samefacts.com/2006/10/policy-briefs/the-north-korean-nuke/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.samefacts.com/2006/10/policy-briefs/the-north-korean-nuke/comment-page-1/#comment-20954 Alex F Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:06:54 +0000 http://samefacts.dreamhosters.com/2006/10/uncategorized/the-north-korean-nuke/#comment-20954 I don't think this post was cynical enough. You're *joking* that the administration might not consider this terrible news. From WaPo: "Yet a number of senior U.S. officials have said privately that they would welcome a North Korean test, regarding it as a clarifying event that would forever end the debate within the Bush administration about whether to solve the problem through diplomacy or through tough actions designed to destabilize North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's grip on power. Now U.S. officials will push for tough sanctions at the U.N. Security Council, and are considering a raft of largely unilateral measures, including stopping and inspecting every ship that goes in and out of North Korea. "This fundamentally changes the landscape now," one U.S. official said last night." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900047.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900047.html</a> I don’t think this post was cynical enough. You’re *joking* that the administration might not consider this terrible news. From WaPo:
“Yet a number of senior U.S. officials have said privately that they would welcome a North Korean test, regarding it as a clarifying event that would forever end the debate within the Bush administration about whether to solve the problem through diplomacy or through tough actions designed to destabilize North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s grip on power.
Now U.S. officials will push for tough sanctions at the U.N. Security Council, and are considering a raft of largely unilateral measures, including stopping and inspecting every ship that goes in and out of North Korea.
“This fundamentally changes the landscape now,” one U.S. official said last night.”
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