Posted on 04/11/2008 7:31:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. Ready to Ease Sanctions on N. Korea
Pyongyang Would Have to Acknowledge Evidence About Nuclear Activities
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 11, 2008; A15
The United States is prepared to lift two key economic sanctions against North Korea under a tentative deal reached with that country this week, which requires Pyongyang to acknowledge U.S. concerns and evidence about a range of nuclear activities, U.S. and Asian diplomats said yesterday.
The agreement also requires North Korea to finish disabling its main nuclear facility and provide a full accounting of its stockpile of plutonium. But, in a key shift, the two sides agreed to sidestep a dispute over how much detail North Korea must provide about any past uranium enrichment-related activities and its involvement in a mysterious Syrian facility bombed by Israel last September.
North Korea had balked at confirming the Bush administration's allegations, stalling for months a process designed to eliminate its nuclear programs. But after negotiations this week in Singapore and last month in Geneva, the United States and North Korea agreed that Pyongyang must "acknowledge" the allegations without precisely admitting them publicly.
That paves the way, diplomats said, for President Bush to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism and to exempt it from the Trading With the Enemy Act.
U.S. officials have concluded it is more important to persuade North Korea to surrender its weapons-grade plutonium -- enough for perhaps half a dozen weapons -- than for the process to collapse over the impasse, according to Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator.
"North Korea has difficulty saying things publicly," Hill said.
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Right. We have a shy bully. LOL.
Ping!
More evidence that Condi is really Madeline Albright in drag.
The State Department is infested with folks who simply have no clue about national security—or perhaps they don’t care.
No 'perhaps' about it. GWB should have put John Bolton in charge there, and made Condi the UN ambassador.
More evidence that Condi is really Madeline Albright in drag.
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Wow. Of the two, then, Condi is really a man. Most might have thought differently.
But seriously, Condi does not make policy, her boss does.
Why I get the feeling when Bush get out of office he going get away whole story like one of one of those late night saleman that say if you buy you get one for FREEEEE LOL! there is store called Sit and sleep that has that commerical here in SO CAL
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