per NK... flashback circa October 2002

[salin]

A huge - but very brief - firestorm emerged in the media, when it was learned that the administration had been briefed that NK had been making moves towards restarting its nuclear programs and the administration had kept this information, for more than six weeks, away from key congressional leaders who had a right to know. Why did they keep the information underwraps? National Security reasons? No, because the information would undermind the efforts to pass the IWR vote... leading up to the vote several critics (including some who in the end voted for the IWR) wondered allowed why Iraq was the focus when a REAL nuclear threat appeared to be brewing in North Korea. The storm errupted when it was learned that the question raised had been the correct one... that indeed the nation that was moving foward with its nuclear wmds threat... was the one we were ignoring (just like we began to ignore the ongoing problems of alqeada regrouping in Afghanistan...) in favor of BUsh and Cheney's pet project: Iraq.

Has anyone read any reference to that episode in any of the mainstream media accounts of the recent NK blast that might or might not be related to testing nukes?

[blackcat77]

1. BBC had a timeline of the whole thing...

...as a sidebar to their story.

Of course the US media hasn't. They believe in -- and contribute to -- the idea that the American collective memory span is about a month.

[salin]

2. the bbc sidebar/time line...

was that at the time - or a more recent item? Would love to be able to find it, and zero in on the timing (and then try to find some old articles on the suppression story.)

[DeepModem Mom]

3. kick