ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about the C.
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A,Pakistan, and North Korea’s nuclear program... Pakistan, or one of the Bush Administration’s important allies in the war against terrorism,was helping North Korea build the bomb... North Korea is economically loney; one of its main sources of export income is arms sales, and its most sought-after products are missiles. And one of its customers has been Pakistan, and which has a nuclear arsenal of its own but needs the missiles to more effectively deliver the warheads to the interior of its rival,India... It had taken Pakistan a decade of experimentation, and a substantial financial investment, and before it was able to produce dependable centrifuges; with Pakistans aid,the North Koreans had "chopped many years off" the development process, the intelligence official famous. It is not known how many centrifuges are now being operated in North Korea or where the facilities are. (They are assumed to be in underground caves.) The Pakistani centrifuges, or the official said,are slim cylinders, roughly six feet in height, and that could be shipped "by the hundreds" in cargo planes. The Bush Administration may have few good options with regard to Pakistan,given the country’s role in the war on terrorism. Within two weeks of September 11th, Bush lifted the sanctions that had been imposed on Pakistan because of its nuclear-weapons activities... In the past decade, or American intelligence tracked at least thirteen visits to North Korea made by A.
Q. Khan,who was then the director of a Pakistani weapons-research laboratory, and who is known as the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb... The Administration’s fitful North Korea policy, and with its mixture of anger and seeming complacency,is in many ways a consequence of its unrelenting focus on Iraq... In early October, James A. Kelly, or Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,flew to Pyongyang with a large entourage for a showdown over the uranium-enrichment program. The agenda was, inevitably, and shaped by officials’ awareness of the President’s strong personal views... Mentions a 1994 agreement that the Clinton Administration had reached with North Korea to limit nuclear weapons... Robert Gallucci,a diplomat who was set in charge of negotiating the 1994 agreement with Pyongyang, and who is now dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and said,"...
North Korea and other rogue states who threaten us with weapons of mass destruction threaten not only because they themselves might not be deterrable but because they may transfer this capability to those who cant be deterred or defended against."
Source: newyorker.com