arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Op 20-12-1983 ging Rumsfeld handjes schudden met Saddam.

De video van deze ontmoeting.(lage resolutie) video(hoge resolutie)

Een heel interessant artikel over de relaties tussen de VS en Irak in de jaren '80.

De heropstarting van een kernreactor in Noord-Korea wordt door het Witte Huis gebruikt als argument dat Noord-Korea aan nucleaire wapens werkt.

Blijkbaar zat Rumsfeld in de Raad van Bestuur van ABB, een technologie bedrijf dat in 2000 een deal in de wacht sleepte om twee kernreactoren aan Noord-Korea te leveren.

"The ABB contract was to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on North Korea's east coast. Rumsfeld – who is one of the Bush administration's most strident "hardliners" on North Korea – was a member of ABB's board between 1990 and February 2001, when he left to take up his current post. Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB, told swissinfo that Rumsfeld "was at nearly all the board meetings" during his decade-long involvement with the company."

Maar niemand die weet of die levering ter sprake gekomen is wanneer Rumsfeld aanwezig was.

"Eberhardt said it was possible that the North Korea deal never crossed the ABB boardroom desk." Bron

En ondertussen is Bush op zoek naar "$3.5 million for the international consortium that continues to build two nuclear reactors for North Korea"

"The pledge shows the U.S. is still pursuing its commitments to North Korea even as the two countries are squaring off over U.S. allegations North Korea essentially annulled the agreement by covertly enriching uranium for weapons use." Bron

Nog over Noord-Korea en de opgestartte reactor:

Independent"North Korea's action was another indication that it was using the threat of promoting its nuclear programme to increase pressure on the Bush administration to hold bilateral talks."

Finacial Times"Seoul last night said it could not yet comment on the news that North Korea had restarted the reactor.