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Article: Firing on Fort Sumter; It is Kim Jong-il, not Saddam Hussein, who has fired the first shot.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 24, 2002
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Byline: Gordon Prather, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
While U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors search Iraq for an 'undeclared' nuke, North Korea's dictator - Kim Jong-il - has provided President Bush a real causis belli. Mr. Kim has just told IAEA inspectors to get out of North Korea and never return.
Iraq, Iran and North Korea are all signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and are, therefore, subject to the IAEA-NPT safeguards and physical security regime.
Iraq came close to developing nukes by exploiting the NPT. Nuke-useable items - such as highly enriched uranium - have to be 'declared' by NPT ...