DAD`s storyline comes one step closer to real world relevance

18-Oct-2002 • Die Another Day

The "caper" of Die Another Day - Colonel Moon`s desire to reunite Korea by invading the south and then lead an attack on Japan and the USA - has come one step closer to real world relevance.

CNN reports: North Korea has revealed to the United States that it has a secret and active nuclear weapons program begun years after it promised to never again to pursue such a course, the White House said late Wednesday.

One senior administration official said Pyongyang made the acknowledgment only after it was confronted with evidence that it has a uranium-based program and enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons.

The North`s admission prompted urgent consultations among the United States, Japan and South Korea -- the three nations that North Korea had promised under the so-called "agreed framework."

The Koreas were divided following World War II and continued that way at the end of the inconclusive Korean War from 1950 to 1953. The United States still stations about 37,000 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korea.