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(Update) Parsing Howard Dean’s Iran “Nuclear Power” Remark

By Daniel McKivergan
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(Update II: Matthew Yglesias has responded to my updated post. I disagree with his assessment for many reasons but nonetheless thought it only fair to post his response here (scroll down to the March 3 posts). Be sure to also read the comments section for some interesting debate.) (Update: Some now claim (I’ll leave aside the ridiculous remark related to Sen. McCain’s Castro comment) that North Korea absolutely didn’t have nukes during the Clinton administration. This must come as news to the Clinton folks and just about every other official involved in the North Korean nuke debate in the 1990s. Here’s what Amb. Robert Gallucci had to say at a May 2003 Senate hearing.

In 1994, the intelligence community, our intelligence community assessed that North Korea more likely than not had wanted two nuclear weapons. That was based on an assessment that they had reprocessed or could have reprocessed as much as eight or 10 so kilograms of plutonium, in that range in any case and so, we had that assessment and we didn’t in the agreed framework provide for the immediate inspections that would help us determine how much plutonium they actually had.

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