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12-30-2002, 11:26 PM
By Gregg Bish
GOPUSA News
December 31, 2002
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- In a weekend blitz of the television talk shows, Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to allay public fear that the situation in Korea was an emergency demanding immediate military action.
Powell made the rounds of all four major network Sunday news talk shows in an effort to restore an ordered perspective to the Korean situation. Saying that the U.S. doesn't believe current North Korean actions "rise to a crisis atmosphere," Powell expressed his view that the decommissioning of the Yongbyon nuclear power plant was misdirection intended to placate international tension in 1994.
"Everybody thought the Agreed Framework froze North Korea's nuclear aspirations," Powell said on Fox News Sunday. "It turned out that it was misdirection. While everybody was watching Yongbyon and seeing that it was frozen, the North Koreans had started moving in a new direction with respect to the enrichment of uranium."
Stating an opinion that the current situation was long-developing, Powell suggested that the pursuit of a renewed nuclear arms program was a decision that had been made as much as four years ago.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2002/december/1231_powell_news_bli tz.shtml)
GOPUSA News
December 31, 2002
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- In a weekend blitz of the television talk shows, Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to allay public fear that the situation in Korea was an emergency demanding immediate military action.
Powell made the rounds of all four major network Sunday news talk shows in an effort to restore an ordered perspective to the Korean situation. Saying that the U.S. doesn't believe current North Korean actions "rise to a crisis atmosphere," Powell expressed his view that the decommissioning of the Yongbyon nuclear power plant was misdirection intended to placate international tension in 1994.
"Everybody thought the Agreed Framework froze North Korea's nuclear aspirations," Powell said on Fox News Sunday. "It turned out that it was misdirection. While everybody was watching Yongbyon and seeing that it was frozen, the North Koreans had started moving in a new direction with respect to the enrichment of uranium."
Stating an opinion that the current situation was long-developing, Powell suggested that the pursuit of a renewed nuclear arms program was a decision that had been made as much as four years ago.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2002/december/1231_powell_news_bli tz.shtml)