[cdn-nucl-l] reply to Adam McLean's comment on "progress" in North Korea

[Tom Adams <TomAdams@nextcity.com>]

Given its track record, I suggest to Mr. McLean that, as much as all
civilized people would like to, it would be imprudent to hope that an
IAEA inspection in North Korea represents "progress". Remember that the
IAEA gave Iraq a clean bill of health for its "peaceful" nuclear program
before the Gulf War. Among its failures, the IAEA failed to detect
Iraq's removal of most of the bomb-grade fuel from safeguarded research
reactors before the Gulf war began in January 1991. The IAEA's failures
arise from its fundamentally confused mandate – controllers/regulators
can't also be promoters. The IAEA's record makes the Israeli approach to
controlling Iraq's nuclear technology look prudent.

Tom Adams, Energy Probe


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