As a non executive director of ABB, Rumsfeld signed off on a 200 million dollar contract to sell reactors to N. Korea in 2000. What do you think about this.
2006-10-09 17:21:39 · 11 answers · asked by Luke F 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The light-water reactor deal was actually brokered by none else than Jimmy Carter (who else) in 1994.
Following the DPRK's spring 1994 unloading of fuel from its five-megawatt nuclear reactor and the resultant US push for UN sanctions, former President Carter's visit to Pyongyang in June 1994 helped to defuse tensions and resulted in renewed South-North talks. A third round of talks between the US and the DPRK opened in Geneva on July 8, 1994. However, the sudden death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on July 8, 1994 halted plans for a first ever South-North presidential summit and led to another period of inter-Korean animosity. The talks were recessed upon news of the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, then resumed in August. These talks concluded with the Agreed Framework.
Under the framework agreement, the North would freeze and eventually dismantle its existing suspect nuclear program, including the 50 MW and 200 MW graphite-moderated reactors under construction, as well as its existing 5 MW reactor and nuclear fuel reprocessing facility. In return, Pyongyang would be provided with alternative energy, initially in the form of heavy oil, and eventually two proliferation-resistant light water reactors (LWR). The two 1,000 MW light-water nuclear reactors would be safer and would produce much less plutonium, in order to help boost the supply of electricity in the North, which is now in a critical shortage. The agreement also included gradual improvement of relations between the US and the DPRK, and committed North Korea to engage in South-North dialogue.
Read the whole story at:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/nuke/...
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2006-10-09 17:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rumsfeld has so much questionable history, including the persuasion of the American people to go into Iraq in the first place.
What he did before that can be unimaginable horror. He breaks international laws as if they didn't exist. It would not surprise me what he would do for money.
2006-10-09 17:30:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems that I remember Carter and Clinton starting this whole thing with N. Korea
2006-10-09 17:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by genny_gump 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You better go read the article in the Guardian - those were Clinton's reactors and the board never voted on the proposition.
2006-10-09 17:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Madeline Albrieght did the same thing. Stop making this a political issue. This is an issue of our survival. Don't you people realize a madman can now wipe out San Fransisco!
2006-10-09 17:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by GloryDays49ers 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
2006-10-09 17:28:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
I guess nobody wanted them at the garage sale.
2006-10-09 19:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all about money. that's Americas problem, always sticking there nose in foreign business.
2006-10-09 17:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i knew that, he really did, and you know, what, im not surprised, becuase he did hte same thing to iran, its true. see a pattern?
2006-10-09 17:29:30 · answer #9 · answered by michael-scalloped strat. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were to actually look into it you would see that it was all Clinton!!
2006-10-09 17:27:50 · answer #10 · answered by ace 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋