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That particular photo may be new, but I’d seen something very similar a few years ago.
Eric Wilner (3936fd) — 10/14/2006 @ 9:16 amIt just proves that North Korea is doing its part to conserve energy and save the planet!
If they keep messing up their nuclear tests they may well glow in the next photo.
tom scott (7479b7) — 10/14/2006 @ 9:26 amLooks like its from the Earth at Night Astronomy Picture of The Day. Click on the picture for a HUGE version.
actus (10527e) — 10/14/2006 @ 9:37 amNorth Korea should promote tourism by calling itself an astronomer’s delight. Nothing but dark skies!
Steverino (b48c8d) — 10/14/2006 @ 9:49 amBill Clinton give the Nork’s several nuclear powered electrical generating plants. Where the heck is all that electricity, or do they only turn on the lights during the daytime?
Black Jack (211e83) — 10/14/2006 @ 10:18 amHey, running those calutrons takes a lot of electricity!
Eric Wilner (3936fd) — 10/14/2006 @ 10:41 amBill Clinton give the Nork’s several nuclear powered electrical generating plants. – Black Jack
Two reactors, not “several plants.” And they’re still in crates waiting to be shipped.
Bush thought the deal was pretty peachy:
steve (8f3e6c) — 10/14/2006 @ 11:19 amA lot depends on what time the photo was taken. I’ve read they turn off all lights excpt in Eraserhead’s palace at 9 PM. If it was before 9, it would be a significant item.
Mike K (dfe6aa) — 10/14/2006 @ 12:12 pmFunny, steve. So, Bush was abiding by the ’94 Agreed Framework?
Didn’t he abrogate it?
No? Then, how, exactly, is it Bush’s fault that the NKs decided to break the treaty, when in 2002, he was sending the money that the agreement called for?
Bush sends them fuel oil as per the agreement in early ’02, and the NKs withdraw from the treaty in December ’02, and this is all Bush’s fault?
I suppose it was because of the ’03 war in Iraq, right? Taught the NKs that they needed nukes? So, they went back in time, and warned their earlier selves of what Bush was going to do?
Is that it, steve?
Lurking Observer (0a710c) — 10/14/2006 @ 1:24 pmThen, how, exactly, is it Bush’s fault that the NKs decided to break the treaty, when in 2002, he was sending the money that the agreement called for? – Lurking Observer
Didn’t say it was.
Although the indication that he “waived the Framework’s requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors” could be judged optional.
steve (8f3e6c) — 10/14/2006 @ 1:38 pmI’ve seen that picture before. Can it really be true?
Patricia (2cc180) — 10/14/2006 @ 2:49 pmOh come on, everyone knows the nuclear stuff is just a smoke screen. The Nork’s are upset at GWB because of Hurricane Katrina, stem cell research, and his lack of respect for Cindy Sheehan.
Kim Jong-il’s got the hots for our Peace Mom, and since the Tom Foley scandal, nobody really much cares about gay marriage anymore. That’s like, so yesterday.
Black Jack (211e83) — 10/14/2006 @ 3:00 pm[…] Thanks to Patterico for the story with this picture: […]
Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archives » A picture is worth a thousand words! (819604) — 10/14/2006 @ 3:26 pmNorth Korea is nothing more than a sick cockroach that America can squash anytime it wants without barely lifting its heel. But that would upset China the largest holder of our national debt. And our largest supplier of cheaps#$t consumer products. It might even put WalMart out of business.
nk (d7a872) — 10/14/2006 @ 5:16 pmYup, Dubya did the same thing in 2002 that Bill Clinton did on June 29, 2000. Waived certifying that North Korea had been hiding plutonium. Funny, why would Bill do that, when he signed the original agreement?
Bush probably did the wrong thing, in the hopes of keeping the treaty alive. As did Bill, right steve?
Of course, if Bush didn’t waive said certification, then he’d have to declare the NKs not in compliance. And then you’d have to face the possibility of war.
So, let’s hear it, stevie-boy. You advocated going to war, back in 2002, right? Few hundred thousand dead civilians in Seoul, that would be acceptable, correct?
B/c, after all, if keeping the treaty alive wasn’t peachy, if Bush should’ve held the NorK’s feet to the fire, that’s what we’re talking about.
You with me on this, steve?
Surely you’re not suggesting, are you steve, that Dubya should have given more to the NorKs are you? I mean, giving ’em the $95M worth of fuel oil under the terms of the ’94 Agreement, that was “optional,” right?
Lurking Observer (0a710c) — 10/14/2006 @ 5:32 pmI gotta say, it’s funny how steve and his ilk are able to reverse course so quickly.
TODAY, it’s Bush’s fault for waiving a compliance stricture back in 2002.
But how was that act portrayed at the time? See here.
And when you read Madeleine Albright and Wendy Sherman talking about how everything was hunky-dory, consider the following from the same article:
Guess those inspections were less than “optional” to some folks, eh, steve?
Lurking Observer (0a710c) — 10/14/2006 @ 6:09 pmOf course, if Bush didn’t waive said certification, then he’d have to declare the NKs not in compliance. And then you’d have to face the possibility of war. – Lurking Observer
We’re *really* vamping now, aren’t we?
Bush had also given formal notice that the United States would withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and refused to support ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
I offer no judgment about Bush’s PDRK waiver, other than he probably got bad advice. Pakistan was a major supplier of critical equipment to North Korea’s newly-revealed enrichment program.
steve (341bd7) — 10/14/2006 @ 7:47 pmTo correct my Comment #14: China is the second largest foreign holder of our national debt. Japan is the largest.
nk (5a2f98) — 10/15/2006 @ 12:33 pmAlexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, showed a similar picture to the Kim Family Regime’s Ambassador to Canberra while “tearing strips off” him last week. See this front-page news item from The Australian. (Warning: link will expire soon). Here’s the start of the item:
I’m really glad to be an Australian.
Chris[topher] Chittleborough (b26b65) — 10/15/2006 @ 10:52 pmHoo-yah, Chris. I’d love to be one day too.
Christoph (9824e6) — 10/15/2006 @ 11:05 pmWe need more pictures now that China is building a fence.
(Apparently China didn’t get the memo about how wrong, cruel, expensive and unfair it is to build a border fence.)
DRJ (ccb97e) — 10/16/2006 @ 10:50 am