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Here are some articles about were North-Korea did get her nuclear reactors.

And Rumfsfeld has a important role in this. He was on the board of the company that seld the reactors to North-Korea and he was also the person behind a secret memorandum calling for regime change in North-Korea.

On February 24, an article appeared in Swissinfo, about the fact that Rumsfeld:

"was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants."

>>>"The Swiss-based ABB on Friday told swissinfo that Rumsfeld was involved with the company in early 2000, when it netted a $200 million (SFr270million) contract with Pyongyang.

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."

In the article, a spokesman for ABB, said:

"that Rumsfeld “was at nearly all the board meetings” during his decade-long involvement with the company.

However, he declined to indicate whether Rumsfeld was made aware of the nuclear contract with North Korea."

Rumsfeld was on ABB board during deal with North Korea
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=161&sid=1648385

On April 28, an article about the same subject "Rumsfeld/North-Korea/nuclear reactors" appeared in Fortune.

Some extracts:

"Rumsfeld declined requests by FORTUNE to elaborate on his role. But ABB spokesman Bjoern Edlund has told FORTUNE that "board members were informed about this project." And other ABB officials say there is no way such a large and high-stakes project, involving complex questions of liability, would not have come to the attention of the board. "A written summary would probably have gone to the board before the deal was signed," says Robert Newman, a former president of ABB's U.S. nuclear division who spearheaded the project. "I'm sure they were aware."

FORTUNE contacted 15 ABB board members who served at the time the company was bidding for the Pyongyang contract, and all but one declined to comment. That director, who asked not to be identified, says he's convinced that ABB's chairman at the time, Percy Barnevik, told the board about the reactor project in the mid-1990s. "This was a major thing for ABB," the former director says, "and extensive political lobbying was done."

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,447429,00.html

About Rumsfeld and his secret memorandum:

"A secret Donald Rumsfeld memorandum calling for regime change in North Korea was leaked yesterday, opening a fresh foreign policy split in the Bush administration.

The classified discussion paper, circulated by the defense secretary, appears to cut directly across State Department plans to disarm Kim Jong-il, the North's dictator, through threats leavened by promises that his regime is not a target for overthrow.

The paper does not call for military action against North Korea, but wants the United States to team up with China in pushing for the collapse of Kim Jong-il's bankrupt but belligerent regime, the New York Times reported"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0421-08.htm

About the American Government and North-Korea:

Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
"The State Department has asked Congress to set aside money for an organization charged with building nuclear reactors in North Korea and supplying the communist dictatorship with fuel oil."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/16/175212.shtml

January 17, 2003
U.S. seeks funding for North Korea pact
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030117-76562687.htm

"The stand-off between North Korea and the United States over Pyongyang’s apparent restart of its nuclear weapons program underscores the inevitable and dangerous connections between nuclear power and nuclear bombs. Yet the Bush administration, while officially opposed to North Korea’s weapons program, relentlessly advocates for a nuclear power expansion, in the U.S. and worldwide."
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/reactor_safety/articles.cfm?ID=9024

"2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea

2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change "

"Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $200m (£125m) contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. The current defence secretary sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush administration."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html