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by sroerick 4192 days ago
Why was North Korea included in Bush's famous Axis of Evil speech?
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Drug running, counterfeit currency production, kidnapping foreign citizens, nuclear testing and producing nuclear capable missiles and testing them in provocative ways.

Plus their prison camp system, internal mass famines, brutal authoritarian dictatorship.

I'm fairly certain it was for nuclear proliferation.