Monday, 5 March 2007

CIA "blunder" over North Korea

CIA "blunder" over North Korea, apparently, with obvious implications for how we should treat US claims (and threats) against Iran: namely, with deep scepticism. Or will the BBC et al. continue to follow the line set by US-UK power? Hmmmm, tough call. === CIA blunder 'prompted Korean nuclear race' By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 02 March 2007 The IndependentThe United States appears to have made a major intelligence blunder over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, one that may have exacerbated tensions with Pyongyang over the past four years and goaded Kim Jong-Il into pressing ahead with last October's live nuclear test, intelligence and Bush administration officials have said.

Full article here:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2318711.ece

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