The younger Kim had been put in charge of North Korea's nuclear weapons program by his father in the late 1980s. By 1993, Washington was so concerned that it offered Pyongyang a deal: stop the program, and the U.S. would give North Korea huge amounts of foreign aid. [Kim Il-Sung] died in July 1994, and it was his son who approved the framework agreement with the United States that October in which the U.S. promised to send Pyongyang half a million tonnes of oil a year and eventually to build the North Koreans two nuclear reactors. This time, the U.S. refused to yield to blackmail, so the past four years have seen North Korea withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, throw out International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, test fire missiles near South Korea and Japan on severa...
North Korea's nuclear ambitions are of interest to Canadians for many reasons, but at this moment two stand out. The first is that unlike some of North Korea's neighbours, Canada has refused to take part in the U.S. missile defence program, which is aimed at preventing countries like North Korea from using nuclear weapons. Former Canadian ambassador to the United States and Liberal star Frank McKenna is urging his party to reconsider that refusal, pointing out that the decision was made by Liberals for partisan reasons that do not serve the interests of the country. Liberals, and Canadians generally, should listen to Mr. McKenna.
In Pakistan he is known as the father of the Islamic bomb and is almost single-handedly credited with the success of their nuclear weapons program, making him a local hero in the struggle with India. Khan is better known to us for establishing the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network ever known, selling the technology needed for nuclear weapons to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
North Korea's progress on nuclear weapons and missiles is "a harbinger of a dark future" and has created an urgent need for more pressure on its government to change its ways, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday. The 32-year-old [Roxana Saberi] was greeted Saturday at the Fargo airport by a crowd of well-wishers and "Welcome home, Roxana" signs. Saberi, who lived in Iran for six years and has dual citizenship, was arrested Jan. 31 and charged with spying for the United States.
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Interestingly, South Korea's reaction to the missile controversy has been relatively nuanced, President Roh Moo-hyun's Uri Party merely urging Pyongyang to avoid endangering the reconciliation process between North and South Korea by testing the Taepodong-2 missile. Seoul also indicated the missile crisis would not affect current high-level economic talks between North and South Korea. Although President Roh has rarely expressed public disagreement with U.S. policies, in a notable address in Los Angeles in November 2004 he said it was "understandable" North Korea pursued the development of nuclear weapons, "... considering the security environment they live in." This was seen as a reference to the Bush National Security Doctrine with its explicit threat of pre-emptive military action a...
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.
North Korea has imposed a moratorium on launching missiles," [Tony Snow] said. "We hope it will continue that moratorium and we hope it also will abide by commitments it made," last year to dismantle nuclear weapons and renounce further development of them. A North Korean state television broadcast, monitored in Seoul, South Korea, cited a Russian editorial on the missile and said the North "has the due right to have a missile that can immediately halt the United States' reckless aerial espionage activity. North Korea has said its needs nuclear weapons and a long-range delivery system to counter what it says is Washington's intention to invade or topple the government. The United States has repeatedly denied any plans to invade, although it has called North Korea part of an "axis of e...
What happened? Media accounts are beginning to converge on a report that Israel bombed a facility where it believed Syria was attempting to hatch its own nuclear weapons program with North Korea's assistance. The Post's Glenn Kessler reported that the strike came three days after a ship carrying material from North Korea docked at a Syrian port and delivered containers that Israel believes held nuclear materials. It's not clear whether U.S. intelligence agencies concur with Israel's conclusion, and independent experts have said that Syria lacks the resources for a credible nuclear weapons program.
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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