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When Israel conducted an air raid on Syria last fall, all the familiar voices rose up to condemn it. Well, now we are going to get video evidence showing that Israel had good reason to believe that charter Axis of Evil member North Korea was helping Syria with its nuclear program. According to the NY Times article, the video “shows Korean faces among the workers at the Syrian plant.” Because there’s such a burgeoning Korean labor force in the middle of the Syria desert.
The story also notes:
The timing of the administration’s decision to
declassify information about the Syrian project has raised
widespread suspicions, especially in the State Department, that
Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration hawks were
hoping that releasing the information might undermine a potential
deal with North Korea that would take it off an American list of
state sponsors of terrorism.
That sounds about right to me. The State Department’s North Korea
policy has absolutely run amok in Bush’s second term. Hopefully
this will push back against those in Foggy Bottom with the
sensibilities of Jimmy Carter.
UPDATE:
In January, John Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
Israel’s Sept. 6
raid against a likely Syrian-North Korea nuclear project was a fire
bell in the night that the regime was up to its old tricks—at
least for anyone willing to listen. The administration’s continuing
refusal to allow Israel to make public the true nature of this
facility will only come back to haunt it, not only on North Korea,
but also on its Middle East policy. If no North Koreans were
involved, why not shout it out? If the facility was not nuclear,
why not do the same? The significance of the Sept. 6 attack has not
faded in Congress, nor will the demands for more public
disclosure.
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