Posted on 12/02/2007 2:49:01 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
TOO much talking, not enough action.
You have a good tag line.
BINGO
“Pyongyang must reveal the amount of plutonium it has extracted; the reality of its uranium enrichment program; and the alleged transfer of nuclear technology and materials to other countries such as Syria, the sources said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933481/posts
U.S. to set 3 more tasks for N. Korea / New hurdles for delisting as terror sponsor
Takashi Sakamoto / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent
WASHINGTON—The U.S. government has decided to impose three new conditions for removing North Korea from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, sources close to the six-party talks said Friday.
Pyongyang must reveal the amount of plutonium it has extracted; the reality of its uranium enrichment program; and the alleged transfer of nuclear technology and materials to other countries such as Syria, the sources said.
These points should be made clear when North Korea completes its declaration of its nuclear programs by the end of this year, the sources added.
The new conditions will be in addition to the current U.S. requirement that North Korea complete the disablement of its nuclear facilities.
It is now likely that North Korea will not be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism anytime soon, since it is unlikely that the country will accept all four conditions, the sources said.
It is believed that the United States and North Korea had agreed on the removal of the reclusive state from the terrorism sponsor list and punitive measures mandated by the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act in return for Pyongyang disabling its nuclear facilities and fully declaring its nuclear programs by year’s end.
Although the background of the new U.S. measures is unclear, the U.S. government is believed to have taken into consideration Japan’s strong demand to keep North Korea on the terrorism sponsor list.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. delegate for the six-party talks, said Thursday in Seoul that North Korea “is required to list all of their [nuclear] programs, facilities and all of the materials. That is what the declaration is for.” Hill will travel to Pyongyang on Monday and stay there until Wednesday.
However, North Korea has not submitted an initial draft nuclear listing, even though only one month remains before the the deadline to complete the declaration.
In relation to the three new conditions, North Korea has flatly denied the existence of an uranium enrichment program and of providing nuclear technology and materials to other countries.
It is also believed that North Korea is reluctant to declare its current nuclear weaponry stockpile, including plutonium, which is used to make nuclear bombs and warheads.
Hill is scheduled to meet North Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan. However, negotiations on the declaration are likely to face rough going unless North Korea changes its stance.
Chief delegates to the six-party talks, scheduled to meet next week in Beijing, will highly likely face difficulties while discussing the declaration.
A bigger story would be the destruction of all of Iran’s oil facilities.
Bush's fault. He should take out the "Axis of Evil" before it's too late.
While I don’t have a link, I remember “not a reactor, but a bomb assembly plant” being speculated upon in another thread, probably a week or so ago.
Why wasn’t an emergeancy meeting of the UN Security Council called?
Great tagline
We were in Jerusalem last week and the Israeli’s re-arrested the guy who originally revealed their bomb program.
It appeared that he had re-entered Israel with a British tour group. He was arrested at the Notre Dame Hotel.
I don’t think that has hit the press yet..but my wife was present at the time.
With that in mind, has Iran been taunting Israel to strike one of Iran’s nuke sites so that Iran can retaliate with nuclear weapons while claiming self defense. Obviously Iran knows Israel will retaliate - what’s left of it - but do they really care? They need major destruction all around to bring the 12’th Imam from his hole...
bkm
Why the H... don’t we just nuke a few bad guys?
What good is it being a super power if we have to worry what other nations think? It’s not like they would do anything but talk and condemn us. They do that anyway.
Wonder if there would be a nice blue glow on a night picture of the same site?
“would shatter congressional confidence in the Bush administration’s diplomatic policy.”
HUH?
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