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Neither side ever lived up to the agreement. NK proceeded with clandestine efforts to enrich Uranium and the U.S. never completed construction of the 2 light water reactors.Great. Another moron.Imbecile ... we had sanctions on North Korea, they still built nuclear weapons. We've had sanctions on Iran for many years now. They are still working on developing nuclear weapons.
Sanctions don't prevent nations from building nukes. Israel is fucked if they rely on America's brain-dead right to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
And really? You want to talk about Obama's poll numbers?? At this point in each Republicans presidency according to Gallup...
Obama ......... 46%
GHW Bush ... 35%
GH Bush ....... not in office
Reagan ......... 47%
Ford .............. not in office
Nixon ............ not in office
Eisenhower .. 51%
You have to go back 56 years to find one with even a 5 point margin higher than Obama. And even that was still within the MoE.
Thank YOU for making the point that "helping" them with nuclear energy leads to them developing bombs!! And THAT is what happens when you help rogue countries develop nuclear capabilities.
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
The nuclear program can be traced back to about 1962, when North Korea committed itself to what it called "all-fortressization", which was the beginning of the hyper-militarized North Korea of today.[18] In 1963 North Korea asked the Soviet Union for help in developing nuclear weapons, but was refused. The Soviet Union agreed to help North Korea develop a peaceful nuclear energy program, including the training of nuclear scientists. Later, China, after its nuclear tests, similarly rejected North Korean requests for help with developing nuclear weapons.[19]
Soviet specialists took part in the construction of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center[20] and began construction of an IRT-2000research reactor in 1963, which became operational in 1965 and was upgraded to 8 MW in 1974.[21] In 1979 North Korea indigenously began to build in Yongbyon a second research reactor, an ore processing plant and a fuel rod fabrication plant.[22]
North Korea's nuclear weapons program dates back to the 1980s. Focusing on practical uses of nuclear energy and the completion of a nuclear weapon development system, North Korea began to operate facilities for uranium fabrication and conversion, and conducted high-explosive detonation tests.[18] In 1985 North Korea ratified the NPT, but did not conclude the required safeguards agreement with the IAEA until 1992. In early 1993, while verifying North Korea's initial declaration, the IAEA concluded that there was strong evidence this declaration was incomplete. When North Korea refused the requested special inspection, the IAEA reported its non-compliance to the UN Security Council. In 1993, North Korea announced its withdrawal from the NPT, but suspended that withdrawal before it took effect.[23]
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the U.S. government agreed to facilitate the supply of two light water reactors to North Korea in exchange for North Korean disarmament.[24][25] Such reactors are considered "more proliferation-resistant than North Korea's graphite-moderated reactors",[26]but not "proliferation proof".[27] Implementation of the Agreed Framework floundered, and in 2002 the Agreed Framework fell apart, with each side blaming the other for its failure. By 2002, Pakistan had admitted that North Korea had gained access to Pakistan's nuclear technology in the late 1990s.[28] Based on evidence from Pakistan, Libya, and multiple confessions from North Korea itself, the United States accused North Korea of non-compliance and halted oil shipments; North Korea later claimed its public confession of guilt had been deliberately misconstrued. By the end of 2002, the Agreed Framework was officially dead.
We could keep enforcing sanctions. Then they don't have the MEANS to obtain uranium.
