Posted on 10/09/2008 9:09:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- North Korea announced Thursday that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, clearly indicating that it plans to completely pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program.
North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was stopping the process of disabling its main nuclear site and barring international inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, the agency said.
Pyongyang "informed IAEA inspectors that effective immediately access to facilities at Yongbyon would no longer be permitted," the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
North Korea "also stated that it has stopped its (nuclear) disablement work," its statement said.
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Diplomacy always wins out.. and other myths.
Chapter 2
North Korea ReDuX
North Korea said to be deploying missiles (test launches imminent?)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081009/ts_nm/us_korea_north
VIENNA/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea deployed more than 10 missiles on its west coast apparently for an imminent test launch, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday, and Pyongyang halted U.N. monitoring of its nuclear complex.
The potentially destabilizing moves followed reports that the United States had offered to remove North Korea from its terrorism blacklist this month in an effort to keep a nuclear disarmament pact from falling apart.
It would be an unprecedented test if North Korea fired all 10 of the surface-to-ship and ship-to-ship missiles. Intelligence sources quoted by the Chosun Ilbo paper said they thought the North may launch five to seven of them.
North Korea has forbidden ships to sail in an area in the Yellow Sea until October 15 in preparation for the launch, an intelligence source told the paper.
Sheesh how many billions of taxpayer dollars did Bush piss away to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to stop this very occurence??
I have been an unwavering supporter of Bush, but this is just nuts.
Yup, but if he’d have bombed them without this happening, then you couldn’t say we tried everything to get them to stop.
He is a LAME DUCK, and a dangerous one at that now. In search of nothing but *legacy*. How selfish and foolish!
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