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Updated: 11:13 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2005
BEIJING - North Korea on Monday agreed to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, in a first step toward disarmament after two years of six-nation talks.
The chief U.S. envoy to the talks praised the breakthrough as a “win-win situation” and “good agreement for all of us.” But he promptly urged Pyongyang to make good on its promises by ending operations at its main nuclear facility at Yongbyon.
“What is the purpose of operating it at this point?” said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. “The time to turn it off would be about now.”
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North Korea balks on ending nuclear programs Pyongyang ties pledge to rejoin arms treaty to light-water reactors
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Tuesday it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons program until the United States first provides an atomic energy reactor, casting doubt on its commitment to a breakthrough agreement reached at international arms talks.
The North insisted during arms talks that began last week in Beijing that it be given a light-water reactor, a type less easily diverted for weapons use, in exchange for abandoning nuclear weapons. The agreement reached at the talks’ end Monday — the first since the negotiations began in August 2003 — says the six countries in the negotiations will discuss the reactor issue “at an appropriate time.”
Both the United States and Japan, members of the six-nation disarmament talks, rejected the North’s latest demand.
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All they are doing is trying more blackmail and stall tactics.
ARGH.I wish they would stop this crap already. THey have so many people in their country dying. They NEED to spend the time on helping their own people.. MUCH like our country...we need to stop wasting money in other countries and help our own!!! grr.....
zero22forty said this in post #4 : ARGH.I wish they would stop this crap already. THey have so many people in their country dying. They NEED to spend the time on helping their own people.. MUCH like our country...we need to stop wasting money in other countries and help our own!!! grr.....
Isn't that the truth? We waste so much money on other countries and we have more poor and dying people on the streets then the countries we try to help.
Perhaps when the current leader dies from a snake bite in NK they will change up.
Don't they remember what happened when the u.s. tested nukes? We had fall out, and they will have massive fall out as cramed and packed as they are in one area.
Can anyone please explain why countries like North Korea would listen to the hypocrisy coming from France, the UK, America or anyone else who has nukes and has no intention of ditching them.
Right now Britain is talking about updating it's Tridant nuclear WMDs (that's a cool £25b - £40b waste of everyone's money)
btw Britain calls it's WMDs "deterrents" but surely for countries like Iran and North Korea the word "nuclear deterrent" actually mean something?
Right now Britain is talking about updating it's Tridant nuclear WMDs (that's a cool £25b - £40b waste of everyone's money)
sweet
Bet you don't plan on testing them in the country though do you?
The question remains - where does N.korea plan on testing them, or on who?
Japan? china? america? russia? probably S. korea?
h@ts said this in post #6 : Can anyone please explain why countries like North Korea would listen to the hypocrisy coming from France, the UK, America or anyone else who has nukes and has no intention of ditching them.
That's right!
Let us ditch our nukes so when a country makes a nuke in silence they can nuke us into the 1600s and we can't nuke back. good idea.
Would have been best had the atom never been split but the fact remains that leading powers will always have them to keep other leading powers in check. That is how all leading powers see the nuke. Now, the problem with NK having nukes, is the fact that they have threatened to use them against both united states, japan, UK and everyone else. they stated all as targets when a res was passed in the UN meeting.
The UK to my knowledge has not threated to use theirs, same with russia and other countries.
why would the same countries that have been threatened want to allow N.Korea to obtain nuclear arms?
Park Chu-Yeong said this in post #7 : I don't think that NK want a Nuclear War but they are just using their Nuclear Weapons as a threat to get what they want (Oil, Food, Other Assets).
That's a very good point that you bring up... and quite possibly the absolute truth.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Well... we all know that NK couldn't make a real stand against the US, and other countries. They just want to show that they are a player in this game too.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
09-20-2005 01:20 PM
