Bush Too Busy to Notice North Korea Making WMD

While the Bush administration was busy "sexing up" the intel on Iraq's weapons programs and retaliating against Joe Wilson for not supporting those claims, Kim Jong Il was busy reprocessing 8,000 nuclear fuel rods into high-grade uranium.

Now while the CIA has been saying North Korea is likely to have one or two nuclear warheads, the Wall Street Journal is saying that "some U.S. analysts" (probably not Valerie Plame - but I wonder if this is more Team B boys) believe NK has up to six warheads. These same analysts believe that may be enough for Pyongyang to either test a warhead or sell one. Neither of which would do a lot to lower tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

NK says that they must build these weapons because of the "aggressive stance of the U.S." Maybe one of the few countries in the world who would actually be wrong to make such a statement. For all their bullying in the Middle East, BushCo. has been eerily silent on NK nukes.

Watch for this to become the next crisis. While this is serious, I wouldn't put it past BushCo. to use this as a distraction from the CIA leak crisis.