US lawmakers seek intelligence report on North Korean nukes
Afp, Washington
US legislators asked President George W. Bush to declassify an intelligence report on North Korea's nuclear weapons so that Congress can hold a full debate on policy towards the Stalinist state. The US intelligence community recently completed a comprehensive national intelligence estimate (NIE) of North Korea's nuclear weapons capability and long-range missile development programmes at the request of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. On Friday Reid and three other senior Democratic senators requested Bush to provide "a declassified version of that NIE so that Congress can have at hand accurate information about the current threat and engage in a full and free debate about the best policy on North Korea going forward."
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