Curt Weldon
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first heard Apr 2025
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or by firsthand evidence. And I don't know. My contention is just that Iran should not be an enemy right now. The people of Iran have never been. They were good friends of ours under the Shah, and they're good people. And we should not allow ourselves to be sucked into another war.
Yep. I understand.
But you're not calling for a war with Iran.
You mentioned North Korea.
I took all three delegations in North Korea, the three U.S. delegations I took, all bipartisan. And I went in there, again, to support the president. I never went on a foreign delegation because that's not the role of the Congress to do foreign policy, only to support the president. I led delegations to 104 countries. I went to North Korea.
And I went there in support of George Bush in the early 2000s. And with Colin Powell's support – Colin Powell was the secretary of state, a good man. I wanted him to run for president. He didn't want to do it. He was screwed by Bush because Condi Rice wanted to kick him out so she could take his job in the second four years, and she did. I'm aware of that.
That's why Colin Powell didn't support George Bush for reelection. I know that for a fact. But anyway, I went to North Korea, and I said, what do you people want? They said, Congressman, we really don't trust the Chinese. We don't fully trust the Russians. The person I met with was Kim Gai-gwan. He was our lead negotiator. How many times did you go to North Korea? I went there three times.
Three times. And to Pyongyang. I went there once to Panmunjom to bring back the remains, and I went to Pyongyang. And I said, well, what do you want? They said, we want the respect of the U.S., We don't know how to get the respect of the U.S. I said, well, one of the things you've got to do is you've got to stop terrorism and you've got to stop your nuclear program.
They said, well, we're not really interested in pursuing a nuclear program. This is back in 2003 and 2004. So I said, well, what if we came up with a plan that maybe would allow you to have an alternative source of energy? They said, we'd be interested in that. So with my delegation, again, three Democrats, I can name them, and they'll come on your show, and two other Republicans.
On the back of an envelope on my first or second trip there, I wrote down six or seven items. It became a two-part plan to create what I call the peace pipeline.
The peace pipeline? Yeah, that's it. That's it. That's the meeting. That's the meeting. So I said, and I met separately with Kim Gagwan privately with the members. They were off. I said, I want to meet with you privately. Let me run something by you because I have to get this approved by Secretary Powell and by the White House.
I said, the six parties, nations, China, Russia, South Korea, North Korea, the U.S., what if they all came together? and offered you some other way for energy. Let's say the Russian has energy up in the Far East, up around Kamchatka, oil and gas. What if we built pipelines from the Russian Far East that came down from Kamchatka through China down the rail corridor of North Korea to South Korea?
And what if Kogas in South Korea offered to buy that product and sell it to China, to Japan, and the other countries? And China built the pipeline. Would you then be willing to give up your nuclear program? And the North Koreans said, yes. So I wrote up a two-part, 10-point peace plan.
Colin Powell had me speak at the monthly Secretary of State forum that he sponsored as a secretary in front of 200 State Department employees. And he put it on his website. The peace plan was approved by all other four nations, five nations. I went to Wuhan, China. Wuhan, China, besides being the health problem, their largest manufacturer of pipe is in Wuhan. They have 500,000 employees there.
I went to Wuhan and spent a week. I met with the leadership of the pipe company and the party in Wuhan. I said, can you get the party leadership to approve you building pipe for a pipeline system from the Russian Far East down through China and North Korea to South Korea. They said, we'd love it. And yes, our country will support that. I went to Kogas. I'm very tight with the South Koreans.
The former defense minister is a good friend of mine. And I traveled with him to Kazakhstan. He knows me very well. And the president was also a good friend. He held a dinner for me when I left Congress. I said, will COGAS buy the product? We'll buy it for ourselves, and we'll sell what we don't need to China, to Japan? Yes, Congressman. It's a great idea.
The Russians, I said, you want to sell the product up there? Absolutely, Congressman. We'll sell all the oil and gas. All the countries supported it. And the plan was that we would not complete and open the pipelines until North Korea shut down the Yongbun reactor. That's their main reactor.
Shut it down and allowed for a transparent multinational review of that site to verify that the nuclear program was totally shut down. And I told them once that's done and once it's verified, then the product will flow through the pipelines and you'll get a tipping fee. For every barrel of product going through the pipeline, you'll get income for your country.
And you'll get to use some of the product for energy for your nation, so you won't need nuclear power. The North Koreans wanted to do it. The White House didn't want it. I'll tell you how severe it was and how childish it was. You know, we have an annual prayer breakfast in Washington every year, and I used to go to every one of them. The president speaks.
So I was at the time working both Libya and North Korea. I've been to both countries. So the Libyan ambassador in Washington was a man named Ojali. I said, Ambassador Ojali, will you come sit at the prayer breakfast with my delegation in front of the president to show that Libya is serious about peace with America? He said, absolutely, Congressman. A month before the prayer breakfast, I get a call.
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