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U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post, March 20, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50241-2005Mar19.html?nav=hcmodule
In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush
administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year
that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a
significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was
helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.
But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two
officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea,
according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride --
which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It
was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that
sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence,
the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction
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