CIA To Describe North Korea-Syria Ties

CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based nuclear reactor, a U.S. official said, a disclosure that could touch off new resistance to the administration's plan to ease sanctions on Pyongyang.

The CIA officials will tell lawmakers that they believe the reactor would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons but was destroyed before it could do so, the U.S. official said, apparently referring to a suspicious installation in Syria that was bombed last year by Israeli warplanes.

The CIA officials also will say that though U.S. officials have had concerns for years about ties between North Korea and Syria, it was not until last year that new intelligence convinced them that the suspicious facility under construction in a remote area of Syria was a nuclear reactor, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity when discussing plans for the briefing.

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[loki]

Doesnt matter if they know what they are talking about or not. I am sure this is another fraud by Bushco and friends to try and lead us into another invasion and increase their personal profits through warfare and tax payer money. It has nothing to do with reality.

[InjunTrouble]

How about describing the North Korea and Pakistan ties?

[wadenelson1]

A "Plutonium-based reactor?" Another journalist with no understanding whatsoever of nuclear physics. There ARE no plutonium-based reactors. An air-cooled graphite moderated uranium-burning reactor will produce a very small % of plutonium as a byproduct of fission. And you only need an operation the size of the Manhattan project to chemically separate and extract that plutonium without killing every technician who gets within a mile of the hot-as-hell spent uranium fuel. A couple of buildings out in the middle of the desert? No way. Think Hanford, Oak Ridge, Savanna, Los Alamos...