Monday, December 13, 2004

Weapons of Mass Distraction

A cogent article by Selig Harrison on the Council on Foreign Relations website argues that the US exaggerates the threat from Pyongyang with regard to nuclear weapons capability whilst overlooking the more tangible threat from re-processed plutonium which it can sell on to other powers. It suits DPRK to be cagey about their capability. But it is very dangerous for the US to proceed on a worst-case scenario basis. He accuses the US administration of misrepresenting the intelligence and ignoring the one real threat.

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