US FOILED NORTH KOREAN MISSILE SHIPMENT TO IRAN... IN AUGUST

JPOST:

A few weeks before dropping North Korea from the United States' list of countries that sponsor terrorism, the Bush administration succeeded in thwarting a shipment of missile parts, possibly including gyroscopes for guidance systems, from the far eastern country to Iran, the weekly news magazine Newsweek reported Sunday quoting US officials.

On August 4, an aircraft operated by Pyongyang's state-controlled airline was given permission by India to fly from Burma to Teheran, traversing Indian airspace.

On August 7, The Indian Express newspaper reported that the office of India's prime minister "hurriedly" asked authorities to withdraw the clearance.

The US officials said that clearance was annulled following a request from Washington.

The US then removed Korea from its state sponsor of terror status in October, after Pyongyang agreed to halt its nuclear program. But what seemed a brisk start began to stutter as Japanese and South Korean officials publicly proclaimed that the North stopped the process of decommissioning its reactor and was not standing up to other sides of its agreement with the US.

US officials believe that when Kim Jong Il passes away North Korea would be ruled by a collective of bureaucrats, military commanders and Communist Party functionaries, at least one of them related to Kim's family.

THE PHRASE WHICH STARTED A LOT OF ANTI-BUSH SENTIMENT - "THE AXIS OF EVIL" - IS STILL AN ACCURATE PHRASE.

• DOVES AND LOONY-LEFT APPEASERS WHO DISLIKE THE PHRASE ARE IN DENIAL, AT BEST.

• I HOPE OBAMA DOESN'T EVEN TRY APPEASE THEM;
  

• I FEAR HE - AND BIDEN AND SCOWCROFT AND ZBIG AND ANTHONY LAKE AND SAMANTHA POWER, AND ROBERT MALLEY (AND THE REST OF OBAMA'S FLOCK OF DOVES) - WILL.

• APPEASEMENT ONLY ENCOURAGES THE ENEMY TO UNDERTAKE BOLDER ACTIONS.

• PEACE COMES AFTER STRENGTH AND AS A RESULT OF VICTORY.

• WHICH IS WHY WE NEED TO CRANK THINGS UP AND GET TOUGHER WITH RUSSIA AND IRAN AND CHAVEZ, NOT MORE "ACCOMMODATING".
  

THANKS FOR THE LINK ACE! ACE MAKES AN IMPORTANT POINT.