North Korea has the Bomb, and threatens to use it.

Exactly how did this happen?

In a surprising admission, North Korea's hard-line Communist government declared publicly today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons.

It also said that it will boycott United States-sponsored regional talks designed to end its nuclear program, according to a North Korean Foreign Ministry statement transmitted today by the reclusive nation's wire service.

Pyongyang said it has "manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's undisguised policy to isolate and stifle" North Korea, and that it will "bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal."

And Japan doesn't care. Their response is:
"At first, we should make economic sanctions," Shintaro Ishihara, Tokyo's conservative governor said in an interview this afternoon, just before North Korea's nuclear weapons vow was made public.

"At the second stage, let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile," Mr. Ishihara taunted with sarcasm in his voice as he spoke in his office, in Tokyo's tallest building. "Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead." Asked what Japan would do in response to a missile attack, Mr. Ishihara merely smiled.

You don't suppose our friends in Japan have a Godzilla buster or two of their own?

So exactly how did this happen? Nattering nabobs of negativism about Dear Leader weakening our image abroad? Liberal media? Bill Clinton?

In order to do nuclear work, you have to have hardware for nuclear reactors. Who would sell such things to the North Koreans? Who would be so irresponsible?

Up steps Free Enterprise to take the credit. It makes me proud to be an American.

Rumsfeld was also on the board of the multinational, Swiss-based company Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), a key contractor in several controversial development projects like the Three Gorges Project in China and the Bakun Dam in Malaysia. (8) According to Swiss Radio International, in 2000, while Rumsfeld was still on the ABB board, the company won a $200 million contract with Pyongyang to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power plants. The reactors are part of deal that was struck between the United States and North Korea in 1994 in an effort to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

Interestingly, in 1998, Rumsfeld, one of the Bush administration's hardliners on Korea policy, chaired a congressional commission (the Rumsfeld Commission on the Ballistic Missile Threat) that argued that the Clinton administration erred when it made the 1994 deal with the North Koreans. Yet, while wearing his corporate hat, Rumsfeld was profiting from this very deal. He claims that the Korean reactor deal never came up in any of the ABB board meetings he attended.

To be fair, redRum sfeld's profiteering is only a drop in the ocean.

Because some pretty big fish are in this sea. Halliburton has sold nuclear detonators . So if Carlyle is swimming there, no one knows exactly how deep the water goes. But it's no wonder Bu$hCo couldn't be bothered to worry about them in the lead up to Iraq.

For one thing, it would be bad for Business.

You can't get a Blank Check without Endless War.

The problem for Dear Leader and Bu$hCo is that if the Big Ones start to go off, they might cash in before they can fully ca$h out.