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| Benazir personally gave Nuclear Technology to North Korea: Book |
| 2008-05-10 |
| NEW DELHI: In a significant revelation, a new book has said North Korea had got nuclear technology from Pakistan in 1993, with the then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto personally carrying the sensitive material in her overcoat during a visit to Pyongyang. Pakistan gave uranium enrichment technology to North Korea in return for missiles, says the biography of the slain PPP leader authored by her close friend Shyam Bhatia. The 'enrichment for missiles' barter took place in 1993, says the book "Goodbye Shahzadi" whose author cites the information revealed by Bhutto herself during a conversation with him. As secret services of India, Russia and some western countries were closely monitoring every move on Pakistan's military research, Bhutto had decided to herself carry the sensitive material to Pyongyang to avoid detection, the book says. "As she (Bhutto) was due to visit North Korea at the end of 1993, she was asked and readily agreed to carry critical nuclear data on her person and hand it over on arrival in Pyongyang," the book claims. "...before leaving Islamabad, she shopped for an overcoat with the 'deepest possible pockets' into which she transferred CDs containing the scientific data about uranium enrichment that the North Koreans wanted," it says. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #11 Fond memories, Mr. Smiley. Tape the ends of the perf paper together into an 'endless' supply of data and write a little program to go get a bit of data just before the endless loop protection screen on the IBM 360/370 kicks your job off and you could lock up the computer all night long. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-05-10 23:43 |
| #10 Are we sure it's anything approaching the truth? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-10 20:25 |
| #9 perhaps she was wooed personally by Kimmy. What woman could resist? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-10 18:44 |
| #8 Seriously, that's gonna tarnish her carefully nurtured image in the West. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-10 18:37 |
| #7 At least you had paper... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-10 18:32 |
| #6 At least you had a ZIP drive. All we had was perforated paper, and we were damn glad to have it too. |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-10 18:07 |
| #5 Seems like I was just getting my first ZIP drive back then, don't remember too many CDs. That's because back then, they were ten bucks a CDR, not ten bucks for 50. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-05-10 14:01 |
| #4 Guess so. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-10 08:38 |
| #3 Getting old, big jim. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 08:19 |
| #2 According to wikipedia, the CD-R and CD-RW support had matured and were available for mass-market in 1988. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-05-10 08:13 |
| #1 CD-ROMs? In 1993? Seems like I was just getting my first ZIP drive back then, don't remember too many CDs. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-10 07:35 |