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Is this true? I've heard around this board that North Korea was able to develop it's nuclear weapons because the U.S. allowed to to develop a uranium enrichment program for its 'nuclear power.' It then took the technology and put it torward nuclear weapons production. Is this true?

Would Bill Clinton do something that dumb?

Would Bill Clinton do something that dumb?

Yes.

Yes.
which isnt really the question at hand

which isnt really the question at hand

I was only semi-serious when I gave that answer. ;)

Is this true? I've heard around this board that North Korea was able to develop it's nuclear weapons because the U.S. allowed to to develop a uranium enrichment program for its 'nuclear power.' It then took the technology and put it torward nuclear weapons production. Is this true?
There are a lot of questions about what exactly North Korea has done and what capability they have. Here's an article from the journal Foreign Affairs (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050101faessay84109/selig-s-harrison/did-north-korea-cheat.html?mode=print) that deals with the history of North Korea's nuclear capability.

Is this true? I've heard around this board that North Korea was able to develop it's nuclear weapons because the U.S. allowed to to develop a uranium enrichment program for its 'nuclear power.' It then took the technology and put it torward nuclear weapons production. Is this true?
That dosen't mean Clinton gave North Korea weapons, it means he didn't bother to make sure that they didn't develop them on their own.

If this story is true at all, this is the raw story, there is much more to the story than, Clinton gave Radiation to North Korea thinking they would be innocent.

There are a lot of questions about what exactly North Korea has done and what capability they have. Here's an article from the journal Foreign Affairs (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050101faessay84109/selig-s-harrison/did-north-korea-cheat.html?mode=print) that deals with the history of North Korea's nuclear capability.

I wouldn't trust Foreign Affairs. It's the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, who are responsible for every foreign policy debacle and betrayal the past 50 years, from Korea to Vietnam to Kosovo to Iraq, and then some.

That dosen't mean Clinton gave North Korea weapons, it means he didn't bother to make sure that they didn't develop them on their own.
He gave them a water cooled nuclear reactor that was perfect to enrich uranium from. They supposedly were going to use it for power but given their amount of coal and waterfalls for hydroelectric dams in that country it was complete BS.

He gave them a water cooled nuclear reactor that was perfect to enrich uranium from. They supposedly were going to use it for power but given their amount of coal and waterfalls for hydroelectric dams in that country it was complete BS.
Nuclear reactors don't produce enriched uranium, they use it as fuel. Breeder reactors can turn enriched uranium into plutonium. Did clinton sell them one of those?

Is this true? I've heard around this board that North Korea was able to develop it's nuclear weapons because the U.S. allowed to to develop a uranium enrichment program for its 'nuclear power.' It then took the technology and put it torward nuclear weapons production. Is this true?
Kinda.

This has been going on since 1989. So, in that he didn't stop his predecessor's policy, it's his fault.

This hadn't stopped as of a few months ago, when I last had the spare time to catch up on stories about unfortunate, but far away, things.