They detonated at least one device - they must have enriched uranium from some source, and given the facilties they have ... and given the intelligence ... it is more likely they did it.
Unless you are trying to cover stuff up Hillary - like your husbands contribution, and the seriousness this issue should receive in an administration already plagued by failure and incompetence.
By the way - restart the six party talks. I have a question. Restarts suggests they had occured in the past. When was this that they occured?
Now, follow me carefully ... if you want to restart something, it must mean you agree or support the process.
If this process had been going on, you would not have complained about it or denied it or attacked it as being insufficient would you?
Clinton: Nobody Knows Whether North Korea Had Uranium Program
FOXNews.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told FOX News that nobody knows whether North Korea ever tried to produce highly enriched uranium, despite claims seemingly to the contrary from intelligence officials.
In an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, Clinton said she's certain the regime in North Korea would try to produce the substance if it could to further its "nuclear ambition," but that the U.S. does not have solid evidence that any program exists or ever existed.
"I don't have any doubt that they would try whatever they possibly could. Have they? I don't know that, and nobody else does, either," Clinton told FOX News. "Clearly, there was some reason to believe that something having to do with highly enriched uranium -- whether it was happening in North Korea, whether it had been imported into North Korea -- was part of the information derived once we got inspectors into North Korea," she said.
Clinton said nobody can point to "any specific location" or "any specific outcome of whatever might have gone on, if anything did."
Top U.S. intelligence officials have said they have high confidence that North Korea was running an enrichment program and moderate confidence the program could still exist.
But Clinton has stirred doubt about the threat posed by any such enrichment program during her four-country tour of Asia, her first trip abroad as secretary of state.
She has urged those focused on it to remember that it was the reprocessing of plutonium that enabled the North to become a nuclear state. The North detonated a low-yield nuclear device in October 2006. That device, and the arsenal of six to 10 nuclear bombs the North is believed to possess, was developed through the reprocessing of plutonium.
One of Clinton's chief aims this week is to reinvigorate the stalled Six-Party talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear programs.
Late last year, in exchange for a verbal pledge by North Korea to allow tough inspections of its nuclear facilities -- on which the North later reneged -- the Bush administration removed the country from Washington's list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
Clinton suggested the "de-listing" of the country could be reversed as they try to jump-start the talks.
"This is still an open effort on our part to get the North Koreans back to the Six-Party talks. The role that that decision did play and might play in trying to engage them once again is of, you know, paramount concern to me right now," she told FOX News.
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