It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM . . . The DPRK makes the following announcement:

North Korea has repeatedly denied a U.S. contention that it has a highly enriched uranium program in addition to its publicly acknowledged plutonium program.

"The story about the 'enriched uranium program' much touted by the U.S. is nothing but a whopping lie," North Korea's official KCNA news agency said.


The agency also denied receiving nuclear secrets from Pakistan, accusing Washington of spreading false rumours to make U.S. claims about the North's program "sound plausible."

So we have on one side an administration that, if it did not outright lie, at the very least demonstrated a willingness to believe and hype the flimsiest of intelligence on WMD's in order to justify military action against perceived foes. On the other side we have a regime that is built at least in part on lies (was Kim Jong Il really born on Paekdusan?) and fears the truth enough to deny nearly all information about the outside world to its citizens. Which side do we believe on the HEU issue? Is there any way they both can be lying?