On October 8, 2006, the day after detecting a nuclear explosion in North Korea, President Bush said: ” ‘The North Korean regime remains one of the world’s leading proliferators of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable for the consequences of such action.’ ”
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 465