And coming up here we expect a briefing by defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld it should

happen in just a couple of minutes this is live coverage on C-SPAN.

But I mean the three countries in the axis of evil are each different each represents

a danger to the world and they're quite different in their circumstance.

Yes.

Is there a military option on the table for preventing North Korea from manufacturing

if they're weapons?

Well let me just put it this way the task of the department one of the assignments of

the department is to prepare for a whole host of contingencies.

Is our rhetoric in any way responsible for pushing them to the point where they feel like

they have the only option that they have is to pull these restrictions off and start

going down the road again of the limited-free weapons?

That's an interesting question.

One of those likes stop me before I kill again that type of thing.

I mean really their actions are a result of decisions by the leadership of the country.

The leadership of the country is currently repressing its people, starving its people,

has large numbers of its people in concentration camps, driving people to try to leave the

country through China and other methods, starving these people.

Their economy is in the tank, people at all levels are unhappy with that leadership.

It is a government that has made a whole host of decisions that had nothing to do with

us.

I don't know why they decided they wanted to have those concentration camps.

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