Uranium hoax

The past five years, the Bush administration has accused North Korea of pursuing an uranium enrichment program, in addition to harvesting plutonium from its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. (The New York Times: U.S. Had Doubts on North Korean Uranium Drive)

It was the uranium claim which led to the nuclear crisis, to North Korea retreating from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to making a bomb and testing it. The accusation now turns out to be false. Without the accusation, IEAI-inspectors would still be in North Korea and it would not have a bomb. This is to say that North Korea's bomb was actually manufactured in the White House.

Read what Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post has to say about this: “It now appears that the White House in 2002 used dubious claims of North Korean uranium enrichment as an excuse to break a Clinton-brokered deal, thereby allowing North Korea's poisonous dictator to build up a stockpile of plutonium, which in turn led to the building of as many as a dozen nuclear weapons, one of which he exploded in a nuclear test last year.”

The claim of an uranium program was sexed up by the Bush administration to engineer a pretext for war. Now they have to admit they lied, because thanks to the Six party talks, inspectors will soon return to North Korea and find out there is no uranium enrichment program.

This once more proves that the gravest threat to international security is the Bush administration.