North Korea must "cease its provocative threats" and respect the will of the international community, which won't accept the communist country unless it abandons what the White House calls its pursuit of nuclear weapons, [Robert Gibbs] said. Russia, voicing regret over the move, urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table. Its Foreign Ministry called the UN statement "legitimate and well-balanced," and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said all sides must stick to the disarmament process. China, North Korea's main ally, appealed for calm. The six-party talks have lost the meaning of their existence, never to recover," the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, declaring it would never participate in the talks again and is no longer bound to previous agreements. On Tuesday, ...
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North Korea's President Kim Jong Il offered to return to multinational disarmament talks that he had abandoned just before setting off an underground nuclear explosion and test-firing missiles to carry the nuclear warheads he hopes will result from his country's nuclear program. Reports from South Korea indicate that process is now almost fully operational, again. Mr. Kim now appears to be trying to force U.S. President Barack Obama into bilateral talks where North Korea would claim equal status with the U.S. to his greater glorification, and to placate the Chinese government, his only ally and economic supporter, but which is growing increasingly impatient with him. Since Mr. Kim is reportedly dying and widely believed to be at least slightly mad -- a kind of Asian Dr. Strangelove -- a...
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Syria began its nuclear co-operation with North Korea in 1997. The construction of al-Kibar, northeast of Damascus and in the direction of the Iraqi border, began in 2001 and was detected in 2003 by both Israel and the U.S. In the spring of 2006, North Korea sent to Syria a small quantity of nuclear fuel that was unloaded at the Syrian Mediterranean port of Lattakieh. But the final proof that Syria and North Korea were co-operating in the nuclear field came in April 2007, when Israeli intelligence gave the U.S. a tape showing North Koreans inside the al-Kibar facility, while satellite photos showed North Korean scientists near their cars with Korean plates outside al-Kibar. [Bashar Assad] claimed that Iran holds the same position. An attack against Israel risks hitting Arab countries. H...
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This week rumours swirled that Kim Jong Il, North Korea's dictator, was gravely ill. The 66-year-old, officials said in Seoul, had suffered a "collapse." South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, was worried enough to call an emergency meeting with senior aides. Some analysts have blamed Kim's health for recent setbacks in the "six-party process" meant to wean the regime off its nuclear weapons in return for aid and security guarantees. Yet for North Korea, intransigence is the norm. Its negotiating style is marked by bluster, foot-dragging, blackmail and brinkmanship. Indeed, the same diplomat notes that the North's recent actions have been "tactically cautious": for instance, there is no sign that Yongbyon's dismantlement is about to be fully reversed.
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S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called North Korea's announcement "a very provocative act." It came as the standoff deepened over Iran's nuclear program, with senior UN diplomats saying six world powers would begin negotiations Friday in London on possibly imposing sanctions against Tehran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel the DPRK to conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear deterrent, as a self-defence measure in response," said a statement by the North's Foreign Ministry and carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. Scud-C missiles have a range of up to 500 kilometres, which could hit most of South Korea. The Rodong has a range of up to 1,300 kilometres, putting most parts of Japan within striking distance. Yonhap said, however, that the range of the Rodong missiles launched Saturday had been reduced. N. resolutions ban North Korea from firing Scuds, medium-range missiles or long-range missiles. Among the U.N. measures is Resolution 1874, passed after North Korea's May 25 nuclear test, that prohibits any launch using ballistic missile technology.
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North Korea is probably not very high on Mr. [BARACK Obama]'s to-do list, not because it doesn't matter, but because there is not a lot that can be done about the rogue state in an urgent way. Mr. Obama, however, is right up there on Pyongyang's to-do list and the North Koreans have already begun rattling sabres at South Korea and cozying up to China in an obvious effort to get the president's attention.
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It has become an absolutely impossible option for (North Korea) to even think about giving up its nuclear weapons," the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency. In a move that could further escalate the nuclear standoff with the U.S., North Korea also said it has reprocessed more than a third of its spent nuclear fuel rods and vowed to weaponize its new plutonium, a key ingredient of atomic bombs along with enriched uranium.
We must do everything so that that doesn't happen," [Sergey Lavrov] said at a news conference. "We are working with the leadership of North Korea to stop steps that could negatively impact the situation. The North's announcement also prompted outcry from China, the North's main ally. Beijing's ambassador to the United Nations urged Pyongyang not to go ahead with a test, warning of "serious consequences." Wang Guangya said at the UN that "no one is going to protect" North Korea, if it goes ahead with "bad behaviour."
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